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...firms have subjected the Stoughton Hall proctor to sumptuous meals, trans-continental flights and first class hotel accomodations in order to obtain his services...
...every club was formed in the past 15 years. Some organizations are approaching their centennial anniversaries, particularly those that cater to students' hobbies, such as singing groups or publications. The flying club, founded in 1910, still helps students obtain their pilots' licenses...
Then the partners discovered they were eligible for loans from the Small Business Administration to minority-owned companies. By the early 1980s Welbilt had become the beneficiary of an SBA program allowing minority firms to obtain federal contracts without competitive bidding. The once two-bit machine shop began winning million-dollar military contracts for Army smoke- grenade launchers and Navy pontoon bridges. Within a few years 95% of its business came from these "set-aside" contracts...
...Japanese still look down on resident foreigners. The 700,000 Koreans who constitute Japan's largest alien enclave must overcome legal barriers to obtain citizenship, although many of them were born and bred in Japan during the early part of the century, when Korea was a Japanese colony. The 5,000 Indochinese refugees taken in by Japan after the Viet Nam War find assimilation all but impossible. "Japanese heartily welcome foreigners on short visits," explains Masahiro Tsubouchi of the Tokyo immigration office. "They just don't want them to stay forever...
What protections there are primarily apply to those using public communications networks like the Source and CompuServe. The Electronic Communication Privacy Act, signed into law last fall, makes it a felony to intercept private messages sent through the networks and stipulates that law- enforcement officials must obtain a search warrant in order to examine backup copies stored in their computers...