Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...island's siren song is simple and successful: "Come back to Jamaica," the slogan goes. But the way in which the giant U.S. ad agency Young & Rubicam landed the Caribbean country's business is a tale of bribery and racketeering, according to a federal grand jury in New Haven, Conn. Last week the panel indicted the ad agency on charges that it paid about $900,000 in kickbacks between 1981 and 1986 to win and keep the Jamaica Tourist Board's account...
...jury charges that Y&R hired Arnold Foote Jr., a Jamaican advertising consultant who the Justice Department contends was also a government official. He allegedly passed along money to Eric Anthony Abrahams, Jamaica's Tourism Minister from 1980 to 1984. Y&R is accused of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which forbids the bribing of foreign officials. The agency denies any wrongdoing...
Many supporters had feared that Sen. William"Biff" MacLean (D-Fairhaven), chair of theCommittee on Bills, would block the committee'spassage of the bill to the Senate floor until thelegislative session ended. MacLean's predecessor,Sen. Arthur J. Lewis (D-Jamaica Plains), was astaunch opponent of gay rights legislation andsuccessfully killed a similar bill with suchmethods two years...
...people in the Dominican Republic, then spread destruction from Florida to Canada. Hugo was the fiercest storm to strike the U.S. East Coast since then. Last year, almost to the week, Gilbert, a maximum Category 5 hurricane with 175-m.p.h. winds, had howled along a more westerly course, pounding Jamaica before stomping into Mexico and the U.S. Gulf Coast...
With 242 of the 252 precincts reporting, 10-term incumbent Albert O'Neill, a conservative from Roslindale, leads the tally with 20,505 votes, or 17.1 percent of the total. Fifteen-term incumbent Chris Iannella, a liberal from Jamaica Plains, was the second-place finisher with 15.7 percent of the vote, according to the Election Commission...