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A Third World country wishes to purchase highly sophisticated tanks and missiles from military contractors in the United States. Pentagon intelligence suggests that these weapons would probably be used to initiate a bloody border dispute with a neighboring country. However, lobbyists for the military contractors persuade our government to ignore...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: An Ominous Arms Trade | 1/4/1995 | See Source »

On one break, our FOP leader though it a good idea to initiate his group to both the elitism and cynicism at and about Harvard. He taught us this little cheer, which is to be spoken in a deliberately slow and pronounced British accent:

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Dispatch From The Rattle River Trail | 9/16/1994 | See Source »

As journalist Laton McCartney relates in his 1988 book, Friends in High Places: The Bechtel Story, Bechtel workers were overworked, illegally paid in script, and compelled to live in dangerous, unsanitary conditions. Meanwhile, Bechtel played the corporate interest game, hiring powerful Jobbyists who successfully derailed the efforts of then-Interior...

Author: By Deborah E. Kopald, | Title: The Governor & the Company: An American Saga | 9/14/1994 | See Source »

But resolving things at his hospital, where medicines and other vital supplies have almost disappeared, has left him frustrated. He lacks the opportunity to get ahead. Even his medical journals no longer arrive. "Things are changing, but there is no hope for a better life now," says the doctor, because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's a Poor Patriot to Do? | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

These assaults on the World Bank, which have surfaced in several academic books and in speeches by congressional leaders, have pushed president Lewis Preston, a former chairman of the J.P. Morgan banking company, to initiate what may become historic changes at the bank. In 1992 he launched an overhaul of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sins of a Sainted Bank | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

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