WASHINGTON − The Air Force needs to clean up its act on buying spare parts for its workhorse C-17, the Pentagon inspector general announced Tuesday, blasting the service for spending 80 times the ...
Prompted by an email from Miriam Gross of Brighton, I look up “boondoggle.” Webster confirms that the word was coined by Robert H. Link. I hadn’t known that until Miriam wrote. She had been alerted to ...
The $14.7 million for a new airport on an Alaskan island that averages only 42 flights a month. The half-million dollars for a new skateboard park in unemployment-ravaged Rhode Island. The $3.4 ...
Shocker alert: California’s effort to build a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco has been a monument to massive cost overruns and delays. And the situation continues to ...
Congress pushes a fighter jet engine the military says it doesn't want or need. May 21, 2010 — -- President Obama says Congress has sunk billions into a military jet engine that the Defense ...
Certain words are pregnant with meaning, full of life and capable of exposing multiple levels of understanding to the fortunate reader. For IT failure fanatics, freaks, researchers, and interested ...
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