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The dig-in against rig-ins began in 1979 with the chance remark of an Illinois paving contractor. He told a federal investigator looking into alleged bidding improprieties, "If you think it's bad here, you ought to see it in Tennessee." The Justice Department made haste to do...
Two months later, Hammer made his first trip. After several subsequent visits, his travels paid off. Occidental (1982 sales: $18.2 billion) has become the first U.S. company to win oil rights from the Chinese in a round of competitive bidding. By early next year, the Los Angeles-based company and...
The bidding for tracts in the 58,000-sq.-mi. area in the Yellow and South China seas has consumed 18 months and attracted 33 companies, including 16 from the U.S. In May a group headed by British Petroleum won the first contract. The Occidental-led group is expected to...
As part of the agreement, the company will be on probation for five years, so that the judge can review its future bidding practices. It will have no say in who is chosen for the chair, which may not be named for the enforced donor, nor can the gift be...
The horse trading in Geneva over arms control may be going nowhere, but the Soviet-American negotiations at Tersk were a success. On a Soviet horse farm nestled in the foothills of the northern Caucasus, 70 Western horse breeders, half of them Americans, gathered with hard dollars in hand for...