General Accounting Office
Americannoun
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It established the General Accounting Office, specifying that it “shall be independent of the executive departments.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The Grace Commission made proposals it said would save almost $300 billion over three years, though the Congressional Budget Office and General Accounting Office estimated only about one-third of that amount would be saved.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2024
The result, a General Accounting Office 1977 report noted, was that food waste prevention was an activity that “did not justify the economic expenditure necessary to reduce loss.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
Perhaps the most significant critique of such separations came in 1978 when the federal government's General Accounting Office, now known as the Government Accountability Office, released a report that called for ending the practice.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2023
He had been dragged from his job in the General Accounting Office, for every field man and ex-field man was needed to conduct the sweeping investigation.
From Insidekick by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone
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