Word: contractors
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Although the Senate has no shortage of clerical staff, female professionals are still expected to act as hostesses, showing a constituent, a defense contractor or a contributor around. In a Senate dining room, a young aide delivering papers to her boss was asked to remove her jacket so that a constituent could get a better look. She did. To someone operating in that atmosphere, perhaps, as Senator Arlen Specter said at Friday's hearing, talk of "women's large breasts" hardly seems such a big deal...
Like The Crimson. Or James F. Hoge, a current fellow at the Institute of Politics. Both The Crimson and Mr. Hoge have been involved in protests recently: The Crimson's renovations contractor because it employed non-union labor; Hoge because he is the former publisher of The New York Daily News, infamous in liberal circles for attempting to "bust" unions at the tabloid...
When a Navy consultant inadvertently left a confidential report at Bath Iron Works last May, officials of the Maine defense contractor could not resist the temptation to peek. Chairman William Haggett ordered up a photocopy of the report, which reviewed the cost of a rival firm's work on the Aegis guided- missile destroyer program. But after briefly scanning the report, Haggett decided he had made "an inappropriate business-ethics decision" and returned the document to the Navy, which launched an investigation...
That noon at the Peter Rabbit diner I met Brisket, who owns the big motel by the interstate, and Graftwell, the paving contractor. They were having lunch with the Town Fool, one of our town's two registered Democrats. It was the Fool who in 1988 urged that the Democrats nominate Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on the theory that F.D.R. at room temperature was smarter than Bob Dole or George Bush at 98.6. The Constitution, he had pointed out, requires that a President be native born and at least 35 years old, but does not insist that he be alive. After...
...conditions. Humvee, which is short for High- Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, is the new U.S. Army jeep. Deployed first in combat in Panama, some 20,000 Humvees were used in the Persian Gulf war. Starting last week, the Humvee was being offered for sale to the public by defense contractor LTV, which is trying to diversify its way out of bankruptcy...