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...contracts. At the Davos World Economic Forum, the firms - including Hochtief of Germany, Swiss-based ABB and Skanska of Sweden - unveiled a set of principles aimed at eliminating bribery, contending that businesses themselves are hurt by rampant payoffs because they distort competition. "There is significant corruption in the industry," Alan Boeckmann, chief executive of U.S. construction giant Fluor, tells TIME. Some big players, including Bechtel and Halliburton - which last week fired two employees for allegedly taking $6 million in kickbacks from a Kuwaiti subcontractor - declined to participate, but with an accord now in place there is growing pressure to sign...
...Staff writer Alan J. Tabak can be reached at tabak@fas.harvard.edu...
Chief of MIT Medical’s Mental Health Service Alan E. Siegel says that MIT does not believe in encouraging mentally ill students to recuperate away from campus...
Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs Alan J. Stone, who responded to the letter, said, “We normally respond to alumni more quickly but there were a lot of factors that lead to the slight delay...
...Staff writer Alan J. Tabak can be reached at tabak@fas.harvard.edu...