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...would gang up for the first time against the former Ma Bell. The Baby Bells have joined with Martin Marietta, the aerospace manufacturer, to bid against AT&T for an enormous prize: a federal telecommunications contract worth some $4.5 billion over ten years. AT&T has been the leading contractor on the account since 1963. The contract, which involves upgrading the Government phone system to transmit data and handle video conferencing, will be awarded late next year...
...troubled bank's total deficits in the past 15 months to $914 million and raised questions about its ability to survive as an independent institution. But the week's most stunning news came the very next day. Dallas-based LTV, the No. 2 U.S. steelmaker and a major defense contractor, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to keep creditors at bay while it tries to make a financial comeback. In terms of its revenues, which reached $8.2 billion last year, LTV is the largest U.S. company ever to declare bankruptcy...
...story on July 8 entitled "Food Service Union Oks Contract, Pay Raise" incorrectly stated that Harvard had agreed not to contract out any of the 14 dining halls if the contractor refuses to recognize the food service workers' union. In fact, that agreement only applies to the Faculty Club, not to the dining halls...
Harvard, according to the new contract, is now required to notify the union 90 days in advance of any contracting out, said Powers. If Harvard does contract out--that is, hire an outside firm to manage any of its 14 dining halls--the contractor is required to recognize the union. Additionally, the agreement continues a clause guaranteeing no lay- offs as a result of contracting...
...dozen locals who have stuck it out as a scraphog at a 743-acre site near the Hawthorne Army ammunition plant in northern Nevada. Succumbing to public pressure to clean up its old demolition ranges, the Army last year turned over to a civilian contractor the tricky business of clearing the Hawthorne site, which had become a sprawling dump for more than 30 years' worth of defective or leftover bombs. The winner of the $3.2 million contract was a small new firm based in Washington named UXB International. (UXB, which stands for "unexploded bomb," was in the title...