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Changing Cost Environment and Frustration

…not exploiting technological advancements, corporations are taking advantage of crises, jacking prices up well beyond what’s necessary or warranted when given the opportunity/ Or, worse, they’re buying up their competition…

What IR can learn from the NHL

…they do not jump into wars without a strategy, a purpose, and a plan). This leaves the Arab League, which has several members—Egypt, Lebanon, Somalia, Bahrain, Iraq, Libya (being the…

My Job Application Letter

Dear Philadelphia Inquirer, I also am a native of the City of Brotherly Love. The last two firms at which I have worked have lost billions of dollars. While I…

Whittle a beak series

Ilsm continues his whittle the beak series: Professor Theodore Postol, MIT, is a continuing and outspoken critic of Missile Defense Agency, Star Wars and numerous related components such as Patriot…

Procurement

…by the use of supplemental war funding. In FY02, only $1.4B was appropriated for procurement in supplemental war funding. That increased every year until $65.9B was appropriated in FY08. FY08…