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Political Roadblocks. The government's official audit committee recently recommended that the railroad be granted greater subsidies, a temporary moratorium on debt payments and the right to hike fares. For its part, the J.N.R. management postponed $155 million in construction projects, and pledged to improve its efficiency and labor-management relations...
...worry, there's nothing at all you'll be missing this week if you decide to paint your room or audit the Red Line instead of donating your twelve bucks to der Internazionalkonzertenkartel...
...agent, Fred Meuser, suggested that $1 million in cash might be appropriate, and the money was channeled to the late Colonel "Chouli" Pantchoulidzew, a former officer of the Imperial Russian Guard who had been a permanent house guest of the prince's parents since 1921. Although an official audit turned up no proof that the money reached Bernhard, the three wise men concluded that "His Royal Highness was the intended recipient" of $1 million that went inexplicably astray...
Miller's strongest critics will not buy that, and there is a growing clamor in the state for more lockups. Miller himself has been attacked for being a poor administrator. A legislative audit of his tenure produced 334 pages documenting mismanagement. Miller is alleged to have spent $65,000 without the legislature's go-ahead, and to have left behind $600,000 in unpaid bills...
...tundra and the pristine mountains along the pipeline's path. For some time this possibility has been a matter of quiet but earnest concern among oilmen and federal officials, who are faced with what may be the biggest problem yet to hit the trouble-plagued project. An urgent audit carried out by the eight-company pipeline consortium, which includes Exxon, Atlantic Richfield and British Petroleum, has revealed 3,955 "problem welds" in the pipeline, which is still only half completed. If Washington decides that the trouble is serious enough to require a major inspection and repair job, it could...