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...most damning revelations were in the report's catalogue of financial abuse. Many contracts for the manufacture of reactor components were slackly written, lacking even technical specifications. Said Investigator A. Ernest Fitzgerald of one contractor's agreements: "I think it was very decent of Westinghouse to do any work, because it is not clear they have to do anything at all under these contracts." A steam generator priced at $5 million in 1975 actually cost the Government $71 million. The report found evidence of both bribery and fraud by some contractors. A consortium of 753 private utilities agreed...
...Ernest Walsh, head of Carpenters Local 67, said yesterday the carpenters were "very happy" to be back at work and were also happy with the terms of their new contract. Eight thousand carpenters approved a new pact Sunday...
Gold and diamonds are hardly Oppenheimer's only lines of business. Though Oppenheimer inherited many of his mining interests from his German-born father, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, who immigrated to South Africa in 1902, his complex and interlocking activities today include investments in uranium, chemicals, real estate, manufacturing, banking and insurance...
...embargo on grain sales to the U.S.S.R., told reporters that he did not see how he could do it "without sending the wrong signal" -which is exactly what critics accused him of when he did kill the embargo the next month. Why did the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reject Ernest Lefever as the nation's top human rights official? Partly because of a fear that other countries might construe support of Lefever as a signal of national sympathy for his unenthusiastic attitude toward a strong American human rights policy. Why do some defense strategists support building the MX missile...
...Africa, Just the name; Africa; Kilamanjaro mountains. Just the name..." --Ernest Hemingway...