Two years ago I got a call from a recruiter telling me about Veritude, a staffing and work-force consulting firm in Boston.
This has forced consulting firms to shift resources to different kinds of projects, to look overseas for new business and to scale back their recruiting efforts as more of their existing employees remain in the nest rather than venture out on their own into the Internet jungle.
In a separate case, a Congressional agency, the G.A.O., has sued to force the White House to reveal the identities of industry executives whom the task force consulted.
In San Francisco today, the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit to compel the administration to release the identities of people the energy task force consulted last year.
The justices ordered an appeals court to reconsider its rejection of the vice president's request to block pretrial discovery into the identities of energy company officials with whom the task force consulted.
During the Mayaguez incident, President Ford did just what Vietnam should have taught him not to do: he unleashed force without consulting Congress, he risked and lost more lives than he saved, and misled the public about the extent of the casualties.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave the President the exclusive right to use military force without consulting the Senate, was based on a false pretext.
Veterans of the Israeli military, intelligence and security forces have formed consulting groups, hoping to find work with government agencies and corporations in the United States.
(Tough Mudder's boast that it's "designed by British Special Forces" refers to consulting input from a former member of the Special Air Service, and to a Tough Mudder employee named Paul Simcox, who was a Royal Marine).
Mr Duffy claimed that his company, Duff & Phelps, attempted to encourage Sports Direct to begin a consultation period with its staff but were ignored, and were forced to "consult" with staff themselves but with only 15 minutes' notice.
He proposes marriage, having been forced to consult her father for permission for medical procedures during her recovery.
