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While most national firms say they provide about eight hours of basic training (mostly showing films) for unarmed guards, Wackenhut, the third largest guard vendor, boasts that its minimum has been 16 hours since the 1970s. Yet two former executives who recently left the firm insist that the real figure was far lower. "Four hours was pretty much it," says Frank Bisogno, who ran Wackenhut's New York City office until he left in 1989. "If you were required by the customer, you would do more. But if the manager could avoid expending a nonbillable cost such as that...
...more prominent in the future," says U.S. Attorney Michael Chertoff, whose Newark office is involved in both the IRS and Social Security cases. "Information has become so valuable, and the government is really its largest consumer." Without tougher monitoring from within, the government may also unwittingly become its largest vendor...
...subway entrance in central Rome, a Senegalese street vendor displays his wares. He lives with 20 other foreigners in a three-story house with no hot water. He thinks the Italians are racist because "when we get on a bus, they move away from...
...sale of these systems will continue to spread unless the U.S. and other vendor nations take steps to stop it. At present the U.S. State and Commerce departments have strict rules governing the export of weapons systems and computers with potential military uses. But with the exception of the South African ban, there are no regulations preventing the sale of relational-data- base systems to countries that lack basic constitutional safeguards. "The U.S. claims to have a role as the moral leader in protecting freedom and democracy," complains Marc Rotenberg, Washington director of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility...
...addition, HHS does not concentrate on whether particular expenditures are necessary. HHS negotiators do not examine whether Harvard obtains products from the least expensive vendor or whether services are procured in an economical fashion. Instead, they look at the way costs are distributed. Only official auditors occasionally attempt to make more specific determinations...