Word: contract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wedtech. Again at Wallach's urging, Meese in 1982 provided what McKay called "instrumental" help to Wedtech, a New York City firm, so that it could land a $32 million Government contract. He intervened despite warnings by Fred Fielding, counsel to the President, and Craig Fuller, assistant to the President, that the White House should not get involved in contract awards. McKay, however, found no evidence that Meese got anything of value for his assistance or violated...
Perpich and Johnson won the election, but Cohen was so tainted by scandal that he lost his job. Outraged, he sued the newspapers for breach of contract and misrepresentation. Last week a Minneapolis jury ruled in his favor, awarding him a total of $700,000 in damages...
Many reporters and editors at the papers had seen the Cohen case as an aberration. But even before the verdict was read, the Star Tribune faced the threat of a new breach-of-contract suit. Free-Lance Writer Martha Thomas sold an article to the paper's Sunday magazine telling the inside story of a rape trial. Thomas interviewed the defense lawyer on condition that her name not appear. But Star Tribune editors insisted that, because the trial was open to the public, it was fair to name names. Late last week the newspaper pulled all 625,000 copies...
Union members either work independently or are hired by ISS Energy Systems, which has a maintenance contract with Harvard...
...They're trying to disenfranchise union workersfrom getting a contract job for Harvard," Murphysaid. "They're making it impossible...