Word: beene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aside from a few major hits such as Ghostbusters, The Karate Kid and When Harry Met Sally . . ., Columbia's movie-production unit has been floundering for years. The most spectacular flop: Ishtar, the Dustin Hoffman-Warren Beatty desert lark released in 1987, which lost $25 million. Three top-management teams...
Marcos could easily have been a hero. When he was first elected President of the Philippines, in November 1965, he had history within his grasp. His uncommon combination of political shrewdness and ironfisted determination gave a strong measure of national identity to the fractious Southeast Asian archipelago. Encountering minimal opposition...
An additional $250 million in Pentagon contracts was laundered through the Department of Energy and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The Energy Department's inspector general, John Layton, said contracts at DOE were drawn so loosely that the department was forced to pay fully even when contractors defrauded...
The library loophole was just one of an array of misdeeds reported to the Glenn committee by some of the Federal Government's 23 inspectors general, whose semi-independent offices were created in 1978 to ferret out abuse in the departments and agencies to which they are attached. Glenn has...
HUD inspector general Paul Adams had repeatedly warned his boss, Secretary Samuel Pierce, about the problems and had been repeatedly ignored. Last week the Government Accounting Office reported that the losses in just one HUD program, the Federal Housing Administration, totaled $4.2 billion -- five - times the amount the Reagan Administration...