random points

• firm = bahay-kalakal
• presidential secrecy = legally known as executive privilege
  (Source: CJ Art Panganiban's With Due Respect)
  http://opinion.inquirer.net/columnist/?colid=4263
• Economics = study of how society manages
  its scarce resources (Gregory Mankiw)
• pariah = outcast
• Subjects in Public Administration
  -Administrative Thought
  -Public Policy
  -Fiscal Administration
  -Local Government Administration
  -Regional Administration
  -Rural Administration
  -Urban Administration
  -Metropolitan Governance
  -Human Resource Development
  -Development Administration
  -Philippine Administrative System
• efficiency = mantra of capitalists
• GMA's populist posturing = "deodorant"
• Noli de Castro = derided by critics as a mere news reader