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...been advised by leading Republicans to write off their donations on their tax returns as business expenses. This disclosure came on top of the conviction six months ago of the Governor's closest political confidant, Secretary of State Paul Sherwin, who had sought a kickback from a highway contractor. Cahill, who had seemed a shoo-in for reelection this year, is now in trouble...
...AFFIRMATIVE ACTION" is a governmentally required positive effort, beyond elimination of discrimination, to seek out and employ persons of groups that have been discriminated against. It is a requirement now imposed on all Federal contractors, which includes almost all employers. Now required as part of a program of affirmative action are "goals" and "timetables"--how many of each protected group the employer hopes to add in a given period of time. The failure to reach a goal in a given time will not necessarily be considered evidence of discrimination if the contractor can show "good faith" efforts to reach...
When told that among the stipulations of the prospective client's grant was the mandate that consulting work be done by consulting firms and not by individuals, Saravelas said that the Planning Council of the United Community Services of Greater Boston could be induced to serve as the formal contractor. His group could then sub-contract from them. Saravelas concluded the conversation by asking that a copy of the Martha's Vineyard program proposal be mailed special delivery to his home in Beverly. Given all that had come before, it seemed like a good thing for Martha's Vineyard that...
Police had first suspected Corona, a Mexican-born farm-labor contractor, when his name appeared on market receipts that were discovered in two of the crude graves that yielded up hacked and bludgeoned bodies near Yuba City, Calif. Two butcher knives, a machete, a pistol, a Levi's jacket and a pair of shorts were all found with bloodstains in various places used by Corona. A key piece of evidence, said the prosecution, was a ledger in his garage with the names of seven of the victims in it. But none of the blood was ever linked...
...Navy make two such dubious investments? The answer seems to be that both companies were contractors on work that has been judged vital to the national security-and thus, when they exhausted their ability to borrow privately, they were able to make offers that the Navy could not refuse. If the Pentagon had scuttled Gap as the builder of a fire-control system in the new $1.4 billion DE1052 model destroyer program, another contractor, according to a Navy official, "would have had to gear up and in the long run spend a hell of a lot more" than the Navy...