As for the 2004-05 budgethethe Republicans talk vaguely of $7 billion of waste in administration.
The coordinated message to the Pakistanis stems in part from a desire not to waste what administration officials see as an important opportunity to exploit apparent disarray in the leadership of the Pakistani Taliban since the death of Mr. Mehsud, which was corroborated by a senior aide captured on Tuesday.
Though energy supply carried the most significance, nine other categories were considered in measuring a school's commitment to sustainability: efficiency, food, academics, purchasing, transportation, waste management, administration, financial investments, and a catchall section titled "other initiatives".
The Obama administration is also backing research into nuclear waste disposal, a prerequisite for nuclear expansion.
The administration last month set up a panel to recommend new waste disposal solution.
The Obama administration quashed that project, opting to explore a new course for nuclear waste disposal.
Kuttner notes that a national system would utilize efficiences of scale, and save large amounts currently wasted on administration, billing, marketing, profit, executive compensation and risk selection.
Rupert George, who runs a site called eGov Monitor that enthusiasts find fascinating, explains: "All too often, public-sector investment in technology has been wasted by administrations unable to tackle the cultural change necessary to realise its potential .In short, badly managed organisations with computers will stay badly managed.
After years of work by the Energy Department to prepare Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a permanent repository for nuclear waste, the Obama administration in 2009 ruled out using that site.
