Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the size of the Shah's personal fortune, he ran a corrupt government from first to last. Foreign companies frequently had to pay "commissions" to government officials or members of the royal family to get any kind of contract in Iran. One example: between 1973 and 1975 the Bell Helicopter division of Textron Inc., which was selling choppers to the Iranian air force, paid a $3 million commission to a company that turned out to be secretly owned in part by a brother-in-law of the Shah. The Shah indirectly acknowledged the corruption by periodically announcing drives...
Cambridge Police Department representatives will meet tomorrow with city bargainers to begin negotiations on a new contract which could cost the city close to $3 million...
...present police contract expires June...
There could be no better present than a good contract for dining hall workers, said Edward Childs, co-chief shop steward of Local 26. "I'd like Harvard to see how Scrooge in 'The Christmas Carol' changed his mind at Christmastime. This could be a New Year's resolution," he added...
...kinds to Iran have fallen dramatically: from $3.7 billion in 1978 to under $1 billion this year. Iran gets about 25% of its food imports from the U.S., having bought 816,000 metric tons of American wheat in the past fiscal year. In September the Khomeini government signed a contract to double wheat purchases from Australia, to 520,000 metric tons over the next six months. The price is about $20 higher than America's $185 a ton. Meat from Australia and New Zealand, eggs from Turkey and poultry from Rumania are flowing into Iran. The country has also...