Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April 14. Shortly thereafter, his anticorruption investigative unit, known as the God Squad, was disbanded. The sacking was prompted, according to Brown, by a Welch probe in the Governor's Florida vacation home: God Squad members had tape-recorded a conversation between a state official and a state contractor in 1981. Brown's office claimed that this eavesdropping violated the Governor's "personal policies...
...charges stemmed from an alleged attempt by Cianci to force a Bristol, R.I., contractor, Raymond DeLeo, to sign an affidavit saying that he had had an affair with Cianci's estranged wife Sheila before the two were divorced last March. The indictment charges that in a confrontation at his Providence town house on March 20, Cianci threatened to sue DeLeo for alienation of affection or to "put a bullet" in his head if DeLeo refused to pay the mayor an unspecified sum (DeLeo claims it was $500,000). At a press conference, Cianci characterized the incident as a simple...
...contractor, who Arcand declined to name, returned last week with a new price that was about 50 percent lower than the original price, and "thousands of dollars less." Arcand said...
...Industries (1982 sales: $4.9 billion) now has the dubious honor of succeeding J.P. Stevens, the textile firm, as organized labor's favorite target. Last week representatives of six unions told a meeting of the House Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations that the giant high-tech conglomerate and defense contractor had repeatedly thwarted their efforts to organize workers. They claimed that the company closed plants before unions could get in, refused to negotiate contracts after employees had voted for a union, and even booted out organized labor once it had won the right to represent workers...
...symbolic effect is amplified, too, when industrious, influential citizens by the million become cocaine scofflaws. A computer programmer snorts with his pal the lawyer, who buys grams from her neighbor the contractor. The builder also sells ounces to the local junior college teacher and the restaurateur, and buys his pounds out of town from a full-time coke broker in Florida. "Getting coke is just a telephone call away," says Chuck, 34, a San Francisco insurance executive...