Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mattachine Society, one of several groups defending the interests of homosexuals, has encouraged them to bring legal action against the Government and publicize their own cases. One who has done just that is Benning Wentworth, an electronics technician employed by a New Jersey defense contractor; for nearly four years he has been fighting a Defense Department attempt to revoke his security clearance. He challenges the traditional assumption that all homosexuals are vulnerable to blackmail and therefore unsuited to jobs that give them access to secret information. How can he be blackmailed, Wentworth argues, when he openly admits that...
...independent fiefdom by Lieut. General Ibnu Sutowo. The initial charge can run to as much as $7,000,000 in so-called signature fees-"just for a hunting license," as one oilman puts it. The companies take all the risks. If oil is found, Pertamina allows a foreign contractor to keep the first 40% to pay exploration and production expenses; the remaining oil is split, with the government monopoly taking at least 65% of it. Pertamina pays all local taxes and supplies "environmental assistance," meaning help in slicing through red tape...
...Thank you, thank you, thank you for "America the Inefficient" [March 23]. I am rushing a complimentary copy to my contractor, who managed to install five large glass sliding doors to slide the wrong way. We have one of those Monday cars...
When Senator Proxime a few months ago listed General Motors as the 10th largest defense contractor in this country, I had supposed that that involved only the sale of vehicles to the Department of Defense...
North American Rockwell was the prime contractor for the Apollo command and service modules and thus a prime loser when the space program was curtailed. Then last December, in the competition for the contract to build the F-15 Air Force fighter, the company lost out to McDonnell Douglas. North American Rockwell started firing, and plans to reduce its work force from 61,000 in December...