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...contract to build a $107 million electric-generating plant to supply power for AEC's atomic project. Reason: the contract was "infected by an illegal conflict of interest." The decision threw out a U.S. Court of Claims award to Dixon-Yates of $1,867,546 for out-of-pocket costs...
...previous city administration. "Tell them we'll pay $8,000," said Lee to the city attorney, "and if they won't settle for that, they'll have to sue." ¶ Canceled the $2,000-a-year "contingency fund" provided to cover the mayor's out-of-pocket expenses, thereby shamed the four other members of the city commission into giving up their own $500-apiece contingency funds.¶Sliced a fast $258,500 out of the previous administration's final bud'get, vowed to whittle away $250,000 more. ¶Forced the resignation...
...Either because of fellow feeling (she is herself the child of an Anglo-American match and bears the title of Lady Elizabeth Kinnaird) or sheer absentmindedness, Author Eliot keeps drifting away from her subject-how a parcel of status-seeking mammas, nouveau riche papas, dutiful daughters and out-of-pocket noblemen staged the great white fortune hunt, or coronet safari, of the late 19th century...
...advertising revenues since the strike began, estimates that it may cost him as much as $1,000,000 more to get the paper back to its prestrike position. Newhouse is now transferring Globe executives temporarily to other jobs within his chain, has managed to cut his out-of-pocket strike costs to some $20,000 a month. At that rate, with a dozen other moneymaking papers in his string, Newhouse can afford to hold out indefinitely. With the guild demanding to know in advance of Newhouse's reorganization plans so it can intercede for affected members, Newhouse refuses, insists...
...easier way for a charity to make money. For $5,700 (and only 20% down), the Maternity Center Association bought up Marriage-Go-Round one night last week. It sold the tickets to members for $10 to $30, wound up with a profit of $16,000. Its major out-of-pocket cost: $210 for postage stamps. Why choose a broad sex comedy such as Marriage-Go-Round for the Maternity Center? Explains Director Hazel Corbin: "Because it turns out all right in the end. We always try to pick a play that is not disruptive of family life...