Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shield the names of high officers who accepted company favors in violation of Defense Department conflict-of-interest rules. The officers accepted invitations to spend weekends shooting duck, geese and quail at Northrop's leased hunting preserve near Easton, Md., even though the company, a major defense contractor, is currently angling for a multibillion-dollar contract to build 800 F-18 jet fighters for the Navy...
...University leased a 13-acre parcel near the Medical School for the construction of the 774-unit mixed-income housing to the Roxbury Tenants of Harvard, independent developer H. Ralph Taylor and general contractor George Macomber in April...
...your ordinary cost-plagued, beleagured defense producer, however. In 1971, the federal government bailed out this dying giant with a $250 million loan guarantee authorization, of which $195 million is still outstanding. Receiving 62 per cent of its total sales from the government, the Pentagon's second largest contractor for fiscal year 1974 and number one during the five years prior to that, the military-industrial establishment found Lockheed too prominent--and too entrenched--to permit it to collapse...
...during Louisville's first tense week of busing was ignored by the Louisville press. Indeed, before school started the Louisville media had adopted a set of voluntary guidelines which were designed to prevent an exacerbation of tension. The violence occurred when Frank Prell, 34, a modestly prosperous white contractor, was stopped by state troopers in riot gear as he headed across town in his 1969 pickup to visit his mother. Without explanation, they began beating on his fenders with their nightsticks and smashed his windshield. After Prell spun away in panic, he ran through a roadblock of Jefferson County...
William L. Bruce '46, vice dean of the Law School, said yesterday that the contractors will have to pay for any damage. "Since the radiators were inspected, we suspect this was an isolated case. However if the same thing continues to happen, the contractor will be out of a lot of money," Bruce said...