| Display title | Pentagon Prices |
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| Date of page creation | 20:06, 3 January 2019 |
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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | Pentagon Prices is the trope describing the now-legendary tendency of the American military -- usually personified as The Pentagon -- to pay outrageously inflated prices for things that would be inexpensive for the average consumer, on the grounds that they were being provided by "the lowest bidder" and thus no cheaper price was available. As Christopher Cerf and Henry Beard put it in the subtitle for their book The Pentagon Catalog, they are "ordinary products at extraordinary prices". |