Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coupled with the greater availability of federal funds, has contributed to a climate in which ambitious blacks can aspire to owning their own businesses. Typical of the new entrepreneurs is Electronics Engineer George G. Rock of Manhattan. Until last year, he was a high-paid employee of a defense contractor. When the firm developed an airborne alarm device to prevent collisions between planes, Rock acquired the rights to the device in return for a promise of royalties. With $173,000, part of it lent through a Government program, he opened Rock Avionic Systems, which will market the device...
John Bynoe, director of the regional office of HEW, said that no institution will actually lose its Federal funds. Rather, he explained, an institution failing to comply with government standards may be deemed a "non-cooperative contractor" and may be heavily pressured to produce an acceptable affirmative action plan when its Federal contracts near expiration and come up for renewal...
...Nelson Gross, former State Treasurer Joseph M. McCrane and former Secretary of State Paul J. Sherwin. Gross and McCrane were indicted for advising fat-cat contributors to write off their campaign contributions on their tax returns as business expenses. Sherwin was convicted for seeking a kickback from a highway contractor...
...Philip Berrigan is a dashing, ruggedly handsome man whose huge ebullience rarely fails to infect those he meets. Elizabeth McAlister-one of twin daughters among the nine children of an immigrant Irish contractor-became a nun in 1959 while she was still in college, but went on studying to get a master's degree in art history. At 33 she is a bit more subdued than in her breathless revolutionary days before the Harrisburg trial. A few years ago, when her community shifted from long religious habit to optional civilian clothes, both Phil Berrigan and her sister nuns used...
...still has to prove his worth to Sham and his trainer, Frank ("Pancho") Martin. Before the Wood, Martin brazenly and unsuccessfully offered any takers the opportunity to bet $5,000 against his horse in a head-to-head contest with Secretariat. A Cuban who trains Sham for New York Contractor Sigmund Sommer, Martin is banking on the fact that no son of Bold Ruler has ever won a Derby, or any Triple Crown race for that matter. The Derby distance of 1¼ miles is too great, some believe, for Bold Ruler's progeny. And if Sham...