Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOSTON--A Milton contractor who has received millions of dollars in low-interest state loans has become a major fundraiser for Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and other politicians, according to a published report...
Twice in 1985 General Dynamics was suspended, then reinstated, as a defense contractor after investigators found instances of bill padding. Through it all the defense conglomerate, which manufactures F-16 fighters and M-1 tanks, among other things, has prospered. From 1984 to 1986, sales increased by nearly 15%, to $8.9 billion. During that period, General Dynamics eclipsed McDonnell Douglas as the nation's No. 1 defense contractor...
...defense contractor with $11 billion in annual sales charges the Government $1,118.26 for the plastic cap on a stool...
...investigation into the new sexual charges against Bakker that had been leveled, without public documentation, by Baptist Televangelist John Ankerberg of Chattanooga, Tenn. Falwell disclosed last week that part of Bakker's hush-money payment was made by PTL and that the remainder was provided by a major PTL contractor, Roe Messner of Wichita. At Dortch's request, Messner then billed PTL for the sum, but Falwell described that as a mere "error in judgment...
...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...