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In addition, GAO has said the national strategy development and implementation should include 1) a regular update of a national-level threat and risk assessment effort, 2) formulate realistic budget and resource plans to eliminate gaps, avoid duplicate effort, avoid "hitchhiker" spending, and protect against federal funds being used to substitute for funding that would have occurred anyway, 3) coordinate the strategy for combating terrorism with efforts to prevent, detect, and respond to computer-based attacks, 4) coordinate agency implementation by reviewing agency and interagency programs to accomplish the national strategy, and 5) carefully choose the most appropriate policy tools of government to best implement the national strategy and achieve national goals.
The stories include: George Saunders' mock reply to a customer-service complaint, Sherman Alexie's tale of a hitchhiker, Jeffrey Eugenides' narrative of a sex anthropologist, and William Vollman's imagined account of Lenin's wife.
“Por baleia,” I responded, mistaking boleia the `lift one gives a hitchhiker,' for baleia a `whale.
The story usually involves a driver who picks up a hitchhiker, often late at night and often a young girl, and he drops her off at or near her home.
He's 6 feet 10 inches tall, gaunt, with long scraggly hair, a rough complexion, humorless eyes--altogether a bit too much of that hitchhiker look.