TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES
TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES SOUP’S ON A new book called What Business Can Get From the Government ($37.50) provides these helpful hints on how to get money from the U.S. Treasury: -You set up shop...
...Rodeo Drive, Part XI Nicholas Lemann is executive editor of Texas Monthly and a contributing editor of The Washington Monthly...
...Unlimited number of government orders for up to $10,000 each without direct headtohead competitive bidding...
...page 80) -The goverment accepts your low bid...
...One person records the measurements...
...You raise the price...
...One person flags the truck...
...And to Screw in a Lightbulb...
...The government sends you clients undpuys their bills...
...Affirmative Reaction Plan Unveiled So far only about ten thousand of the federal government’s two million employees have lost their jobs as a result of Reagan’s budget cuts...
...The mayor’s wifeandchildren are said to live there year-round...
...Gonzalez commutes on weekends...
...The Maui News reports that in Hawaii it takes seven government workers to inspect a truck...
...The study shows that only 20.6 percent of those laid off were white males...
...Women and minorities make up only 32 percent and nine percent of the federal work force, respectively...
...Treasury: -You set up shop asa businessconsultant...
...Two others measure the length of the truck...
...page 80) -Five ways to negotiate a government contract so the government bears the risk if the costs get out of line...
...But a congressional study shows that 62.9 percent of these workers are women and 39.2 percent are minorities...
...page 179) -How to get government research business based on the expertise of your personnelwithout having to have the personnel on your staj” (page 38) ‘You May Recall That My Previous Recipe Called for Five Pints of Cooking Sherry’ (page 30) Julia Child recently revealed that, in her judgment, the best way to peel a tomato is with a blow torch...
...The last two issue citations...
...Thegovernment paysit...
...The Say the Da Schools Are B etter Out T x ere’ New York magazine reports that Carlos Hank Gonzalez, the mayor of Mexico City, owns an $875,000 home in New Canaan, Connecticut...
...page 180) -A government purchase order that is the next best thing toa“b1ankcheck”forrepeat sales...
...Reaganomics Meets Sunset Strip Er...
...A second guides the truck onto a weight scale...
Vol. 14 • October 1982 • No. 8
