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...horribly," declared the task-force chairman, J. Peter Grace, 70, the flamboyant head of the New York-based W.R. Grace & Co. He noted that the Pentagon had been paying $91 for screws that cost 3? "in any hardware store." He charged that the Federal Government has failed to collect some $100 billion each year in taxes that are owed it. "If you're still paying taxes," he said to his audience, "hi, sucker...
...professor has received considerable press coverage in Massachusetts for his efforts to collect $332,000 from the state for his work in the liquor-license case, an amount the Massachusetts attorney general declared unreasonable. The dispute has continued even though the professor reduced the requested fee to $150,000, which he says covers the work of three lawyers over six years. Tribe has never been shy about publicity: some Washington reporters say that until recently he often called them to announce his latest court victories. "He may tend to be a little cocky," says fellow Constitutional Scholar Yale Kamisar...
Paul McDermott, the owner of a public relations firm in Boston, has volunteered to collect more than 1000 toys for the Boston Children's Service, a central organization which helps Boston's neediest children...
...last April and is now capable of sending only a fraction of its ground-to-orbit capacity. These difficulties were compounded by the brief blackout of a tracking station in White Sands, N. Mex., and the failure of an electronic relay on the shuttle. The device was supposed to collect data from the pallet experiments and pipe them into Spacelab's computers...
...well the newly independent parts fare is critical to the question of how much phone bills will rise after the split. If the regionals make money, attract investors, improve efficiency and keep costs down, phone bills stand a better chance of staying reasonable. If they do not, pressure to collect money from phone users for lost revenues will increase...