Word: contract
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...embassy in Moscow and the consulate in Leningrad, leaving Americans to do their own housekeeping. But some help is on the way. The State Department last week announced that it had awarded Pacific Architects and Engineers Inc. of Los Angeles a five-year, $10 million contract to provide American drivers, electricians and plumbers for the missions...
Pacific, which supplies 4,500 service people to private companies and U.S. Government installations worldwide, will hire 60 to 90 American workers for the contract, leaving as many as 200 positions unfilled. Admitted one State Department official: "There was quite a bit of redundancy of jobs at the missions...
...bayonet is back, in the form of a multipurpose weapon that will begin to be issued to infantry units next March. The manufacturer, Phrobis III Ltd., is a small (ten employees) research-and-development firm in Oceanside, Calif., that beat out 48 competitors for a $15.6 million contract to produce 315,600 new bayonets. Phrobis' M-9 Multi-Purpose Bayonet System rivals the Swiss Army Knife in versatility: a serrated upper edge saws through rope, wood and ice, and the 7 1/8-in. blade can cut through steel. It includes a bottle opener and a whetstone...
...Justice Department confirmed last week that it is considering the appointment of an independent counsel to determine whether Nofziger violated federal conflict-of-interest laws in 1982 by helping a New York City defense supplier win a $31 million contract to produce small engines for the Army. Nofziger admitted to the New York Times that he signed a letter sent on behalf of the company to James E. Jenkins, who was the top aide to then Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese. The letter, written in May 1982, just four months after Nofziger left the White House, urged Jenkins to intercede with...
...Massachusetts firm beats out the Beretta for this contract, the Army would wind up with two incompatible handguns. "It's absolutely ridiculous," contends an aide to House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin. "It's the rawest of pork...