Word: extras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pentagon brass were outraged last year when the Dravo Corp. persuaded Congress to award it up to $10 million in extra payments on a disputed Navy contract. Although Dravo had agreed to build a steam plant at the Navy's Norfolk, Va., shipyard under a $102.9 million fixed-price contract, Congress ordered the service to pay for Dravo's cost overruns. Navy paymasters stalled until the 1987 fiscal year ended Sept. 30. Now, they discover, Dravo is back again. Just passed by the House Appropriations Committee, the 1988 Defense Department budget includes the same $10 million bailout. "Greed is still...
...always agree on what constitutes a crime. In the Iran-contra case, there was no problem: North and his associates are accused of fraud, which is clearly a crime in Switzerland. Tax evasion, though, is not against Swiss law. An American who underreports his income can still hide the extra money from the Internal Revenue Service by putting it in a Swiss account...
...come out with Jill, ($150) a trendy twelve-year-old companion and raconteur. Telling a story about a haunted house, Jill might ask, "Should we go in the front door, the back door or crawl in a window?" The child's choice determines the direction of the story. Extra voice tapes include Jill's Slumber Party and Jill Goes to the Mall, complete with credit card...
...last month found the tap on Tribe's phone had told the Boston Globe that he was looking into potential interference on the associate's home phone. On Monday, after Tribe's associate notified the company that his phone was being tampered with, a New England Telephone technician found extra wire loose at the junction box of the group of townhouses that included the associate's and threw it away, the associate told the Globe...
...England Telephone Spokesman Roberta C. Clement said that the extra wire found attached to the line was examined and determined to have been used by the company for temporary service...