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...fairness to promotion, which had long been a matter of connections. Legal challenges have led testmakers to revise the questions, making them more detailed and less interpretive. "A question that asks for interpretation can be open to challenge," explains Joanne Adams of Washington's International Personnel Management Association, the largest producer of U.S. police exams. Unfortunately, the new exams are so exacting, she says, that contestants must stuff their heads with "tiny bits of specific knowledge...
...ground to the gas tank. The Saudi government has agreed to pay $1.2 billion for a 50% interest in Texaco's refining and marketing operations in 23 U.S. states, mostly in the East. If the deal is approved by both governments and Texaco's shareholders, it would represent the largest Arab investment in the U.S. oil industry...
...spending $160 billion a year on its huge purchases of sophisticated weapons and mundane supplies, the U.S. Defense Department has become the "largest and the most important business enterprise in the world," declared a presidential commission that undertook to reform the Pentagon's procurement procedures two years ago. It is also a system, said the commission, that is "fundamentally ill" in the way it awards 15 million contracts annually. Just how wrong things have gone at the Pentagon became apparent last week. Operation Ill Wind, an extensive two-year investigation of fraud and bribery in the handling of major purchases...
...former executives damages of $69.5 million, which would amount to 52% of the company's fiscal 1987 earnings. McKay, 45, won $44.6 million, while Williams, % 47, was awarded $24.9 million. McKay's judgment, which was higher because his salary at Ashland was larger than Williams', is one of the largest awards ever granted to an individual claimant. Ashland will appeal, and may be able to get the damages reduced. Because the company will not have to pay anything until the appeals process is complete -- something that could take years -- the verdict should have no immediate financial effect...
Operation Ill Wind targets some 100 military buyers, suppliers and greedy middlemen in one of the largest U. S. cases of white- collar crime. -- House Speaker Jim Wright turns the sleaze issue bipartisan. -- Howard Baker resigns as chief of staff in a White House that seems ready to turn out its lights. -- The worst drought since 1934 withers much of the West, Great Plains and South...