Paying for performance
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leaders were meeting to discuss ways of ending the violence that plagued the region. Newspapers carried a steady stream of stories about the failing U.S. economy. And the Bush administration was promoting an innovative way of buying services-tell contractors the desired end resuit and let them figure out the best way to get there. The novel approach was called performance-based contracting.
The Bush administration is betting the performance-based approach to contracting will finally catch on.
The year was 1991. The Minnesota Twins were one of the hottest teams in baseball. Arab and Israeli
Some things never change.
Earlier this summer, the Twins once again were on the march through the American League. Trouble flared in the Middle East. The sluggish economy led most newscasts. And President George W. Bush pledged that over the next five years a majority of the government's service contracts would be performance-based.
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