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Vice President George Bush, bidding to extend his winning streak in New England, led Bob Dole last night in the Vermont Republican presidential primary, as Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis defeated four other Democrats in the low-key, low-stakes tuneup for Super Tuesday.
In his job as chief network engineer for the General Services Administration, Sureshar Soni helps analyze costs for the vast federal telephone system used by 1.3 million Government workers. Because the GSA is preparing to replace that system for the first time since 1963, a deal worth up to a...
The trouble at the GSA apparently started last spring, when bidding began for a separate but somewhat related project, a $55 million contract to build a dozen telephone-switching installations. According to one of Soni's co- workers, the engineer made photocopies at GSA headquarters of the confidential AT&T...
Whatever the motive, the manipulation has backfired. The GSA must now determine whether to start the bidding over again on the $55 million contract. The installation of FTS-2000 could be delayed a year or two while the investigations take place. The Government has estimated that it will lose $100...
ABC could do without one of its firsts, however. Not since TV and the Olympics were introduced to each other has the network covering the Games lost money. Though ABC projects a healthy 21.5 average rating in prime time and commercial time is virtually sold out (up to $300,000...