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...contracts with General Dynamics. The reversal came just three months after the service suspended the supplier of nuclear submarines on charges of improperly billing taxpayers $158 million for overhead costs ranging from the kenneling of an executive's dog to the purchase of a company director's kingsize bed. In announcing the sanctions, Navy Secretary John Lehman accused the third largest defense contractor of disregarding the public's trust...
...lives on Grape Street (just off "Charcoal Alley," as 103rd Street has been called since it burned), knows that "people are fighting now over dope and getting raped and kidnaped." When gunfire gets too bad near her house, Sixth-Grader Russell deals with it by crawling under her bed...
...those qualities in her with screams and a face of panic. Does he love her still? Of course, he says; he hates the disease, but he loves his wife. Or--and this seems hard--does he only love what he remembers of Emily? Is the frail doll in the bed an impostor? But no; this is Emily too, the same old Emily hidden somewhere under the decaying cells and in the folds of the painkillers. It is Emily and she is suffering and he swore he would always look after...
...chairman of Greenwich, Conn.-based Iroquois Brands (1984 sales: $142 million), pleaded innocent to charges of possessing $8,000 worth of cocaine. Police arrested the executive, 47, and a female companion in a Hartford hotel earlier this month after the officers allegedly spotted the drug lying openly on a bed. Police claim they also found equipment used to smoke the substance, a process called free-basing that produces an intense high. Hotel workers became suspicious of Fox partly because he registered under a false name, Michael McCarthy, but used a credit card with his real name...
...Elmwood with their two children at about the same time as Williams and Bloxom--and endured much of the same abuse--did decide to stay. But their home is guarded by plainclothes policemen, and Carol Fox admits, "I get scared sometimes. I think about it when I go to bed at night...