Word: contracters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ALEXANDRIA, Va--A Navy official and a major defense contractor pleaded guilty yesterday to charges in the "Ill Wind" Pentagon procurement case, with the Navy man admitting he took a bribe to provide inside information on a contract...
Eastern's unions welcome the prospect of dealing with a judge instead of Lorenzo. But they too will lose clout under Chapter 11. For one thing, the bankruptcy court has the power to set terms for a contract settlement. But the unions will also be able to file a reorganization plan for the airline. Union leaders gave every indication that the strike will continue. At week's end its focus turned to picketing Continental facilities at airports in Miami, Houston, Denver and Newark...
...million in financing for their $24 million venture from a special Pentagon fund for HDTV research. But just two days after the Zenith-AT&T announcement, the U.S. division of Japan's Sony acknowledged that it had submitted a bid for the Pentagon's entire $30 million research contract. "I don't think Sony needs a U.S. subsidy," groused Republican Representative Don Ritter of Pennsylvania, who has sponsored legislation that would create more HDTV incentives for American industry. "It was open bidding," counters Sony spokesman Haruyuki Machida. Who will get the money? Don't touch that dial...
...them at midweek via a 20-minute video taped at his Houston home. Said Lorenzo: "If the pilots, the flight attendants and the noncontract employees support the picket line and don't show up for work, Eastern cannot survive." As the tape rolled, Lorenzo took out a new contract he was about to offer his pilots and signed...
...gesture fell flat. Under the pact, the pilots, who have given up $164.5 million in wages since 1986, were asked for an additional $64 million a year in concessions. The pilots rejected the contract and threw their support to the I.A.M. members, asserting that the airline's fleet could not be safely maintained during a mechanics' walkout. Said John Bavis, head of Eastern's pilots' union: "What's Lorenzo going to do with 225 airplanes? Take them down to the local Jiffy Lube...