Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think it was very decent of Westinghouse to do any work, because it is not clear they have to do anything at all under these contracts." A steam generator priced at $5 million in 1975 actually cost the Government $71 million. The report found evidence of both bribery and fraud by some contractors. A consortium of 753 private utilities agreed in 1973 to put up more than a third of the capital for Clinch River. Thanks to the cost overruns, the private sector investment will be no more than 8%, and probably less...
Kosinski faults himself and Abbott's other literary friends. "We pretended he had always been a writer. It was a fraud. It was like the '60s, when we embraced the Black Panthers in that moment of radical chic without understanding their experience." There is another analogy from the 1960s, when Conservative Writer William F. Buckley Jr. championed the cause of a literarily gifted convicted killer, Edgar Smith, and helped set him at liberty to attempt murder again. Years later, Buckley acknowledged in an article how easily conned and naive he had been. Mailer, whose writings attest...
...make a dent in the bloated Pentagon budget, but his procedural reforms may, in the long run, yield substantial savings. His principal targets: the Pentagon's elaborate and illogical procurement and budget planning processes. Weinberger has appointed a special assistant to search out waste and fraud and has been open to outside ideas. Ehner Staats, on his final day in office as Carter's Comptroller General, sent Weinberger a letter with 15 recommendations to improve Pentagon efficiency; eleven of the proposals have been adopted, and two more are under study...
...that one-nation-under-God boogie-joogie. We are ourselves. We are our own nation or country or whatever you want to call it. . . That man has got his country, and we are our country," one man insists. If their days are dominated by a single theme--the fraud of white rule--than their minds will be dominated by that idea, too. And the knowledge of prejudice and oppression is so well-founded that even if it is uncomfirmed for a little while or in a small place, it persists. The Cambridge Civic Association may not be full of racists...
DIED. Isadore ("Kid Cann") Blumenfeld, 80, colorful Minneapolis hoodlum and international Prohibition bootlegger whose career was marked by acquittals-for such crimes as kidnaping, murder and fraud -before he was convicted in 1960 on charges of white slavery and in 1961 of jury tampering and sentenced to seven years in prison; in New York City. Though he was Jewish, Blumenfeld donated 10% of his estimated $10 million fortune to churches as well as synagogues. "I believe in playing all the angles," he explained. "I'm superstitious...