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...undue influence--by whom on whom was never quite clear. The company's penchant for secrecy didn't help its reputation either. In 1976 the Justice Department charged that Bechtel had gone too far to please Arab clients by blacklisting potential subcontractors who dealt with Israel. Bechtel signed a consent decree promising not to join any Arab boycott of Israel...
...aquifer that provides drinking water for residents of Louisiana and Texas); and shipped toxic waste laced with mercury to South Africa without notifying the EPA, as required by law. Last March, on the third day of what was expected to be a three-week trial, the company signed a consent agreement to settle the case. Without admitting any wrongdoing, Borden Chemicals agreed to pay a fine of $3.6 million--the largest in Louisiana history. The company also consented to spend $3 million to clean up groundwater contamination and stop injecting waste into underground storage wells, and to donate...
Just as liberals live in growing fear that America has had it with affirmative action, conservatives have to wonder if the future of the pro-life movement is not equally bleak. No doubt, the pro-life lobby remains strong and abortion continues to be restricted (i.e., parental consent requirements, bans on partial-birth abortions). But I would be just as surprised to see abortion outlawed in this country in the next 10 years as I would to see affirmative action embraced by the masses. Roe v. Wade is not going to be overturned; the voters will not let it happen...
...Lucianne Goldberg the Oliver North of the Lewinsky scandal? "I take all the blame," the literary agent told reporters Thursday, after she testified before a Maryland grand jury over Linda Tripp's recordings of conversations with the White House intern. Phone-tapping without the other party's consent is illegal in the state of Maryland, and the investigation has focused on whether Tripp knew that. Now Goldberg -- who appears to have recorded all her own conversations, too -- has handed over tapes in which she tells Tripp that the Lewinsky recording would be legal under federal law. "I didn...
...private manner of his death betrayed the poet?s secret world. Only his family, his publisher and a tightly knit circle of close friends knew that Ted Hughes, the British poet laureate and by common consent one of the 20th century?s greatest writers, had cancer and had been struggling reclusively with it for 18 months. Finally, Hughes passed away Wednesday night at the age of 68, Faber & Faber, his publisher, announced Thursday...