BRAC Friday

[James A. Landau]

Associated Press story that appeared in _The Atlantic City Press_ Thursday,
May 12, 2005, page A1, headline "Sense of dread at Army base in Monmouth".

<quote>
by John Curran
Assoicated Press

EatonTown---Around here, they've taken to to calling it "BRAC  Friday".
    That's BRAC, as in Base Realignment and Closure  commission, the federal
panel that decides whether the U.S. Army finally calls  it quits on Fort
Monmouth.  And Friday, as in the day when Defense  Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
reveals his recommendations for closing or  downsizing dozens of U.S. military
bases."
</quote>

Aside:  Curran uses "his recommendations" to mean not the opinions  that
Secretary Rumsfeld has and publicly expresses on how to do things, but  rather to
mean "the recommendations that the panel submits to the Secretary and  which
the Secretary then announces".  Probably a slip on Curran's part, but  it poses
an interesting question as to who "owns" a public recommendation: the  person
(here committee) who drew it up or the person who announces  it?

      - Jim Landau