Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cambion, a Cambridge electronics firm whose biggest contractor is the U.S. Defense Department, has consistently sought to destroy the unionizing effort at its Cambridge plant...
Cambion, which employs about 400 workers, manufactures computer components and parts for integrated circuits. The U.S. Defense Department is its biggest contractor...
...scandal once again rippled across Europe, a parliament debated whether to prosecute a prince, a Premier was publicly accused of graft, and a former Defense Minister repeated his assertions that he had done nothing wrong. The only certainty was that the Lockheed Aircraft Corp., the largest defense contractor in the U.S., has admitted spending some $24 million in bribes overseas. Where it all went, nobody seems to know-at least nobody who is telling...
Most of them have another dimension, often forgotten in the sweeping political assessments of this season. Dick Morrell, a heating and building-supply contractor from Brunswick, Me., is a city selectman and a trustee of the local hospital and serves on the planning commission. Dan Theno of Ashland, Wis., is active in the Elks and the Jaycees. Richard Bell is a Georgia Tech alumni trustee and a member of the Atlanta leadership group that has helped steer that city to its current state of excellence. Hallie Wiggins, who runs the office for her husband's sewer and water facilities...
...these are only the major figures. There are countless lesser lights, all of whom Liz beds in the book: a Watergate lawyer and a top lobbyist, a defense contractor and some big-shot constituents. Though Liz suffers a minor disappointment at the end, when Battle goes off to marry a preferred mistress, she seems happy enough. She is promoted to Mistress No. 1, effective his wedding day, and in her final lines expresses her joy at being so close to the seat of power...