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...return for like arrangements on "their" jobs. Sometimes payoffs beyond these so-called complimentary bids are involved, as was the case with two former officials of Ashland-Warren, Inc., an Atlanta-based subsidiary of Ashland Oil, Inc., which boasts the dubious distinction of having paid in 1982 the largest antitrust penalties ever assessed a U.S. corporation. The executives were convicted of agreeing to slip $125,000 to a smaller company that had underbid them on a Tennessee highway project. In return, Ashland-Warren was to become a 100% "subcontractor...
Though no one planned it that way, it has become the largest single investigation in U.S. Justice Department history. It has produced 262 cases against 256 corporations and 267 individuals, leading to 400 criminal convictions, some $50 million in penalties and 137 jail sentences, many of them against once respected members of their communities. Their offense: participating in bid-rigging schemes on construction projects...
...floating warfare, the U.S. Navy's current force of 21 minesweepers-three active and 18 in reserve-could keep open only two of the nation's twelve major ports were the Soviets ever to mine U.S. harbors. Concluded Editor Captain John Moore: "The U.S.S.R. has the largest and the most diverse stock of [mines] in the world...
Whatever else, Reagan's self-control is phenomenal. One solid word to any of those "confidants" and the leak would begin, the mystique would vanish. The press and public would go back to cataloguing all the dumb things he says about Nicaragua. As of now, the largest political story of the summer is still will he or won't he run. The White House gets the question a dozen or more times a day, sometimes at the strangest moments. Recently Mrs. Reagan held a press conference on her Foster Grandparent program. Other subjects were ruled out. Reporters could...
...Since 1973, at least 600,000 jobs have disappeared, leaving fewer than 1.9 million. Low-wage producers in the Far East and Latin America are gobbling up American markets like a Pac-Man run amuck. Hardest hit among U.S. manufacturers is Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, which has the largest share of domestic apparel sales. It is beset by relatively high labor costs, exorbitant rents and a panoply of other problems that come from doing business in the heart of a huge city...