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The suspended payments represent less than 10% of General Dynamics' monthly billings to the Defense Department and a piddling amount by Pentagon standards. Weinberger was adamant, however, in describing the move not simply as a public relations gesture but a first strike in a "get-tough" policy on defense contractors...
Michael Davenport keeps at it, perhaps unwisely. After more than one episode of psychosis and years of trying to wring poems from a life that eludes him, he marries Sarah Garvey, his daughter's high school guidance counselor, and accepts a teaching post at Billings State University in Kansas...
"I'm an actor from Billings, Montana," he said. A long way to come for a football game. I thought, as I asked him who would win.
Hardest hit was an area near the town of Roundup (pop. 2,119) in southeastern Montana, where 37 homes were destroyed by a blaze that began in the arid Bull Mountains, sending up columns of smoke that drifted into Billings, 30 miles to the south. "It sounded like a jet...
Bogus billings cost AT&T $70 million in 1982 and $74 million during the first nine months of last year. Such sums are minuscule, however, when compared with the company's revenues (1983: $69.8 billion). AT&T deducts the fraudulent charges from its taxable income as a cost of...