Subjects:  1. Public contracts    2. United States   

Subjects:  1. Government purchasing    2. Law and legislation    3. Public contracts    4. United States   

Subjects:  1. Government purchasing    2. Procurement    3. Public contracts    4. Small business    5. United States   

Subjects:  1. Contracts, Letting of    2. Public contracts    3. United States   

Subjects:  1. Public contracts    2. United States   

Subjects:  1. Discrimination in employment    2. Employment    3. Minorities    4. Public contracts    5. United States   

Subjects:  1. Commercial products    2. Government purchasing    3. Law and legislature    4. Public contracts    5. United States   

Subjects:  1. Congress    2. Government purchasing    3. Procurement    4. Public contracts    5. United States   

Subjects:  1. Contracts    2. Office of University Research    3. Public contracts    4. Rules and practice    5. United States   

Subjects:  1. Government purchasing    2. Public contracts    3. United States   

Subjects:  1. Citizen suits (Civil procedure)    2. Claims    3. Fraud investigation    4. Moot courts    5. Public contracts    6. Separations of powers    7. United States   

Subjects:  1. Military Science    2. Technology & Industrial Arts    3. Computer programs    4. Copyright    5. Intellectual property    6. Public contracts    7. United States   

Reviews (6)

McGahern's bleakness
I wanted to respond to Larry L. Looney's "Bleak, Bleak.." review regarding John McGahern's focus on the grim, which is obviously correct. As for William Trevor, I'd say McGahern is more the unremitting artist-realist (read his brilliant first novel 'The Barracks') and Trevor perhaps more the superb storyteller and stylist. The greatest difference I think is McGahern's frequent use of dark Irish irony and flashes of wit, both grim and otherwise, in his stories.
BLEAK, BLEAK...
McGahern writes beautifully, and he obviously has a keen eye - his portraits of the various Irish men and women who populate these stories are well-drawn, and he evokes not only the speech but the total experience of the Irish very well.If only these stories weren't - at least for the most part - so bleak, I could personally enjoy them much more.There's humor to be found within this volume, for sure - but for the most part I found hopelessness and resignation and emptiness and pathos.Far too many of these tales - for my taste - involved people who were living in doubt:doubt about their lives, their loves, their faith, their very place in life, the very land in which they dwell.Doubt is not necessarily a bad thing - it calls us (hopefully) to reassess our beliefs and values, so that we may, when needed, reorder our lives.The doubt that has entered the lives of these characters, however, seems to cover them like a blanket - and rather than struggle with it, they seem to welcome its false warmth, pulling it more tightly about their shoulders. The Master
For anyone that reads, McGahern is an essential reading companion. He speaks for the man in Dublin, single running into middle age, or brimming it, and whose heart is a flutter for a nurse too far, or a far field wherea father is dying into a landscape that nobody wants, that nobody values.McGahern maps the difficult transition of Ireland from a largely ruralperspective, and then from the rural to urban.A sef confessed Joycefreak, McGahern has tried to emulate Portrait, and Dubliners in his ownway. The rain will fall very gently on this mans tombstone. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Criminal provisions    2. Defense contracts    3. Dept. of Defense    4. Fraud    5. Procurement    6. Public contracts    7. United States   

Subjects:  1. Legal Reference / Law Profession    2. Public Contract   

Subjects:  1. Public contracts    2. United States   

Subjects:  1. Legal Reference / Law Profession    2. Public Contract   

Subjects:  1. Court of Federal Claims    2. Public contracts    3. United States   

Subjects:  1. Government purchasing    2. Public contracts    3. United States   

Subjects:  1. Overhead costs    2. Public contracts    3. United States   

Reviews (1)

whee
I might've ruined the total rating in terms of stars by being stupid, but please read this book!I'm only at page fifty and the prose and illustrations are excellent.I like to imagine Devon as a magical wonderland, even though it probably isn't.You get extremely clear mental pictures of everything that Teale describes. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Public contracts    2. Subcontracting    3. United States