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...many defense contractors cheat the Government? Just "a few bad apples," is Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's reply. But last week the Pentagon's inspector general, Joseph Sherick, startled a House subcommittee by revealing that 45 of the 100 largest defense contractors are under investigation for possible illegalities relating to their military work. Sherick said he will recommend that Weinberger ban two top executives of General Dynamics, Chairman David Lewis and Chief Financial Officer Gordon MacDonald, from dealing with Pentagon contracts. The firm recently agreed to repay the Government $244 million in improperly charged expenses. Such a blackball would...
...Markowitz, now 35, publicly admitted last week that the shelters were part of a colossal sham that authorities called "the largest tax-fraud case ever prosecuted." In a federal district court in Manhattan, he pleaded guilty to conducting a scheme that enabled about 200 taxpayers to take illegal income tax deductions amounting to more than $445 million. Allen, Cavett and the other celebrities who participated in the shelters were named as unwitting victims of the fraud...
Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, which is spearheading the import drive, called in top executives from the country's 60 largest corporations for an hour-long pep talk on buying parts and materials from abroad. In addition, MITI is urging retailers to promote foreign goods and is planning to sponsor import fairs...
...star, but Walter recommended one way that its existence might be tested. He knew that if comets cyclically pelted the planet, they must have left behind craters in chronologically distinct batches. Water, wind and continental drift have eroded most of the earth's impact craters, but 100 of the largest survive in some form and have been roughly dated. Muller and Walter Alvarez examined the data on 13 of the best- dated craters spanning a period of 250 million years and, sure enough, the gutting seemed to occur in peaks of 28.4 million years (although the later inclusion of data...
...never quite coalesced into a planet. Occasionally an asteroid is slowed in its travels, probably by the gravity of nearby Jupiter, and tugged into an orbit that sends it closer to the sun and the inner planets, including earth. And sometimes collisions occur. About 100 of the earth's largest known craters are believed to have been caused by huge asteroids dropping from the heavens...