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...Frederik van Zyl, a successful building contractor: "I don't want blacks to take over South Africa, but I don't like the way that people treat the blacks either. I pay my boys well, and they like working for me. But hell, % man, I wouldn't want to live next door to them. Still, when I go to football matches at Rand Stadium, I realize how many of them there are and that we have to make a deal with them in order to survive...
However, Roger E. Bombardier, a contractor hired by Cate Enterprises, gave an estimate that the damage could be repaired and the theater made operational "within 90 days," the article said...
...shopping list. General Mills, maker of Wheaties, for example, beats Quaker Oats. Reason: General Mills' "generous and innovative" programs for housing and minority business in Minneapolis. But Quaker Oats' Aunt Jemima pancakes stack up higher than the Downy Flake brand, because Downy's manufacturer, IC Industries, is a defense contractor...
...Broadway as The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas but known to customers from far beyond tiny La Grange as the Chicken Ranch, the most familiar bordello in the U.S. has been out of business since 1973. But now La Grange (pop. 3,768) is clucking over plans by Houston Contractor Todd Hoffman to erect a museum on the site and hold a "Chicken Fest," featuring big-name entertainers and a barbecue cookoff with a $40,000 first prize. Mayor Charlie Jungmichel has called Hoffman's proposal a "slap in the face to the people of our county. I think...
...statement, Myerson, 62, announced that she is taking a 90-day unpaid leave from her $83,000-a-year job during a special city probe of her activities. Myerson also disclosed that she is the subject of a federal grand jury investigation into the activities of her companion, City Contractor Carl Capasso. Capasso, 41, was indicted the next day on charges that he evaded paying $774,600 in corporate and personal taxes...