Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fitzgerald, who exposed cost overruns on the C-5A transport plane in 1969, had been warned he risked arrest if he revealed the names of the contractors in his report. The names were duly omitted, but leaked out later. Among the findings: at Rockwell International, actual labor costs on the B-l bomber were $15 an hour, but the final charge to the Government was nearly $200. Boeing's cruise missile markup was from $14 to nearly $114 an hour...
...book Frank's second sense of regaining his family's lost estate (the recapturing of it on canvas) is the most important and lasting achievement, yet one feels no sense of triumph or joy. The book's title does not refer to actual land, but rather to the vast number of paintings that Frank has produced of his family's lost estate, discovered and displayed after his death. He has achieved great acclaim as a painter, but at what cost? He says...
...money would be wired from brokerage accounts at major firms to secret accounts in Switzerland, where it might remain for three or four months before a member of the Badalamenti family collected it. Meanwhile, as a sign of trust between the two groups, the heroin would be delivered. The actual smuggling is done in innumerable ways. One example: a year ago, FBI agents examined a load of ceramic tiles being shipped from a company located near Milan to an address in Buffalo. When they looked inside the hollowed-out beams of the wooden pallets that held the tiles, they found...
...York Times vs. Sullivan. To "encourage robust debate," the high court so broadened the definition of libel that journalists were given license to say almost anything they wanted about public officials (but not about private citizens). In order to sue successfully for libel, a public official had to prove "actual malice," which the court defined as reporting that was known to be false or showed a "reckless disregard" for the truth. In the wake of the Sullivan decision, judges initially threw out cases involving public figures before they got to a jury, reasoning that the plaintiff could never prove actual...
...Scanlon has done quite a bit to bridge the gap between philosophical ideas and actual applications...