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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Motors, contends that its proposal was technically superior but that it lost out because the FAA gave IBM "preferential treatment" that helped the firm submit an unfair lower bid. For one thing, Hughes says, it was not informed by the agency of changes in specifications that favored IBM. The complaint also focuses on the fact that if Hughes had won, it was going to buy many of the necessary computers from IBM. Hughes says that in preparing its bid, it received inflated cost estimates from IBM on equipment needed from the computer maker. According to Hughes, while IBM said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTRACTS: Caught in a Holding Pattern | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...modern American readers, Tolstoy's life sometimes reads like a 19th century version of Portnoy's Complaint, in which the protagonist never stops griping that his desires are repugnant to his morals. Tolstoy's diaries and instructional writings are engorged with this seriocomic theme, a fact that led Biographer Henri Troyat to conclude more than 20 years ago that Russia's literary icon was "a billy-goat pining for purity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Billy-Goat Pining for Purity TOLSTOY | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

While few Californians are likely to believe that Prince Charles and Princess Diana send their dirty linen to San Diego, the ads were enough to offend Anglophiles in the area and draw two letters of complaint from the British consulate-general in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GIMMICKS: Does Lady Di Do Laundry? | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...union won the May election, in which 90 percent of Harvard's 3500 support staff voted, by a slim 44-vote margin. In a complaint filed the week after the election, Harvard charged that the union's victory was invalid because it engaged in improper election-day practices, including keeping lists of who voted and how and transporting workers to and from the polls...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Union Letter Rebuts University's Charges | 8/2/1988 | See Source »

...Michael S. Dukakis was greeted by cheering Massachusetts state employees yesterday when he returned to the governor's office for the first time since winning the Democratic presidential nomination. But a Republican complaint was likely to force him to wait for $46 million in federal campaign funds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dukakis-Bentsen Encounters Hitch | 7/26/1988 | See Source »

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