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...from the Bronx, seemed to have everything -- a Miss America crown (1945), big money and political clout. But last April she resigned her $83,000-a-year job as New York City's commissioner of cultural affairs because of what the papers called the "Bess mess." Her romance with Contractor Carl Capasso was a family-wrecking affair, upended when Capasso ran into the tax trouble that got him a four-year prison term. Worse still were charges that in 1983 Myerson gave a $19,000 job to the daughter of State Supreme Court Justice Hortense Gabel in order to induce...
...Occupational Safety and Health Administration has imposed unprecedented penalties on some of the nation's biggest and best-known companies. Among them: Ford Motor and Chrysler (the No. 2 and No. 3 U.S. automakers), Caterpillar (No. 1 among makers of construction equipment), General Dynamics (No. 1 defense contractor) and IBP (No. 1 meat-packer...
...repair crew even tracked down some of the original Nova Scotia sandstone and found a recently demolished Boston building which was built with the relatively rare materials, said Daniel M. Aylward, Vice-President of Cardarelli Construction, the Allston-based company which is the general contractor for the project...
...prospective bridegroom is Asif Ali Zardari, 34, a handlebar-mustached building contractor and polo player. Like Bhutto, he is a member of a landowning family from Sind province. His father, once a supporter of Prime Minister Bhutto, remains active in opposition politics. The Zardari family reportedly broached the subject of marriage to Benazir's mother and aunt last year. Benazir and Asif subsequently met at a dinner party, but they did not get together again until two weeks ago, in London. Five days later the marriage plans were announced...
...plane's sole-source contractor, Northrop Corp., has taken a $124 million tax write-off against profits on the plane, signifying concern with the soaring development costs. Last week the Air Force called in officials from the Rand, Northrop and Rockwell corporations to explore the possibilities of subcontracting bigger chunks of the project...