Often, the prime contracts include small business set-asides, or goals, that are tied to award fees.
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One can only guess at the diverting asides creeping into the minutes on those occasions.
Recent immigrants and wealthy blacks are thought more deserving of quota favoritism and set-asides than poor whites.
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He frequently steps to the side of his narrative to begin whispering asides that can last an afternoon.
Claire McCaskill, a Democratic senator from Missouri, offers a good mix of thoughts on policy, political titbits, and personal asides.
Recently, for example, they were instrumental in the passage of legislation that mandates five percent federal contracting set asides for women-owned businesses.
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However, my Cato Institute colleague Simon Lester warned of the danger of littering an accord with exemptions, exceptions, set-asides, and other restrictions.
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But his tug-you-by-the-sleeve style and thoughtful asides make for an engaging journey.
Dozens of notes now litter the pages of popular outlets, letting any visitor with the software read the snide asides of his peers.
From the 2009 release of Star Trek, his focus has seemed to fixate on comedic asides of the crew, especially with the character of Bones.
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And a final question: As a veteran, would you please see if we can enforce the existing laws for veteran and other small-business set-asides?
And he salts his message with earthy anecdotes and self-deprecating asides.
Mr Hart combines scholarly rigour with personal anecdotes and light asides.
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The success of his unusual book depends on whether or not you are prepared to indulge his flights of fancy, his whimsical asides, his outspoken views.
Many Olympic officials who benefit from the set-asides keep very busy schedules during the Games, allowing them only quick appearances (or no appearance) for some events.
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The asides are intended to be humorous but are typically delivered with the lightness of touch of a man dumping a fridge at a wild bird sanctuary.
Clapton fans who want his blistering guitar work will have to revisit his back catalog, but his playing on "Old Sock, " rich with tasty little asides, is impeccable.
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Part of the problem may have arisen from the fact that Mr. Albee's characters sometimes address the audience directly, and that they can also hear each other's asides.
He interrupts that film to apostrophize, in cinematic chapters, footnotes, and asides, on his romantic history and on the confluence of forces that brought the pair to a crossroads.
Notwithstanding the nasty asides at Grover Norquist, Buffett has been quite expansive on the complex tradeoffs inherent in investment decisions, and how taxes can be a pivotal swing factor.
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They shroud their aimlessness in thickets of wit and confessional asides which go by so quickly that you'll do a double take before you see how revealing they are.
Inevitably bulky, given its scope, his book is so bloated by asides, digressions, polemics and hobbies that it is positively obese, and this makes it a hard book to review justly.
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Often, Dylan's inflections and asides give the thoughts resonance.
Lucid, sardonic, cinema-centric asides (especially one great set piece involving an aged, hearing-impaired movie technician from the silent-film era) adorn their all-night tangle of intimacy, building to a grungy, furiously self-deprecating .
Obviously, I'm procrastinating with these "Clockwork Orange" asides.
Because of the SBA's new size standards, which determine a company's eligibility for federal set asides for small firms, his company now vies for contracts against competitors as much as twice its size, he says.
Even her adlibbed asides establish that she's deep inside the feeling of a song, a knack that makes her covers (of Jimmy Cliff's "Many Rivers to Cross" or the Hollies' "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother") particularly stirring.
He took the long way around when telling a story, but the view you had while taking the trip was magnificent, full of tangents and asides as interesting (if not more so) than the stories he was telling.
Mr Gribbin's prose is confident, and his amusing asides include an explanation of the origins of soda water and the observation that the length of a French nobleman's title was, by and large, inversely proportional to his social standing.
The beautiful part about doing "50 x 50" was that, because we had the photos to inform the narratives, it enabled us to sort of tell a lot of sort of interesting asides that weren't able to be covered in any of the sort of more straightforward, you know, tellings of his story.
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