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Pentagon brass were outraged last year when the Dravo Corp. persuaded Congress to award it up to $10 million in extra payments on a disputed Navy contract. Although Dravo had agreed to build a steam plant at the Navy's Norfolk, Va., shipyard under a $102.9 million fixed-price contract, Congress ordered the service to pay for Dravo's cost overruns. Navy paymasters stalled until the 1987 fiscal year ended Sept. 30. Now, they discover, Dravo is back again. Just passed by the House Appropriations Committee, the 1988 Defense Department budget includes the same $10 million bailout. "Greed is still...
...Raphael Levey and Dr. Angelo Eraklis, of the Harvard-affiliated Boston hospital, are planning to build a facility to treat international patients who cannot afford medical prices in this country. But the site they have chosen for the venture in Clydebank, Scotland is an old shipyard whose remains, which include asbestos pipes, litter the land...
...just can't build a hospital on top of anasbestos site," said Elizabeth Epstein, a Bostonmusic teacher who was born in Clydebank. She addedthat she is very worried about her old home town."It seems to me that the removal of asbestos isputting the whole community at risk...
...Straightedge is an attempt to reconsider values in a sort of untheoretical way, in a narcissistic and indulgent society, to try build a different world, one that's not derived from MTV," says William J. Whelan '88, a Social Studies major doing his thesis on "Music Subcultures in the United States." Whelan describes himself as an ex-punk...
Along with the difference in uniform, one of the things that differentiates skinheads from purple hair mohawked punks is in fact, these political ideas. "The punks are anarchists, while the skinheads want to build the country to be better," Modley says...