Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feds call the new antipot campaign Operation Stop Crop 1988, but critics call it "borderline insanity." Says Doug McVay, project coordinator for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: "What they're talking about here is a rape of the environment that may end up poisoning some people." The DEA subsequently clarified its announcement, saying paraquat would be sprayed only on private land...
Scorsese, the director of Taxi Driver and The Color of Money, has tried for years to make a film of The Last Temptation. Paramount had planned to produce it in 1983 but backed away, fearing pressure from Fundamentalists. When Universal undertook the project, it hired born-again Marketers Tim Penland and the Rev. Larry Poland to help allay concern about the film among their fellow conservative Christians. The pair marked 80 out of 120 script pages where they thought dialogue or action would be unacceptable, then resigned, they say, after concluding that Universal would not respond to their objections...
...sort of skulduggery that used to allow contractors to sell the Government $7,000 coffeemakers and $600 toilet seats. They maintain that defense companies, far from destitute, are simply earning less than the bloated profits they once viewed as their birthright. Says Dina Rasor, director of the private Project on Military Procurement: "It's like taking a fifth hot-fudge sundae from a fat man, and he complains that you're starving...
Northrop is under attack on several fronts. The Air Force is complaining about shoddy workmanship in the Los Angeles company's Tacit Rainbow anti-enemy radar missile project, and the entire system, which could be worth an estimated $3 billion to the company, seems vulnerable to being cut from the Pentagon budget. Former Northrop employees charge the company with filing at least $400 million in questionable expense claims in connection with the development of its MX missile-guidance system. In addition, the Government is looking into allegations that the company bribed South Korean officials in the hope of boosting overseas...
Dukakis thought all the energies of grief should be channeled into his own current project, the reform of the Massachusetts legislature. He quoted a Kennedy speech on the subject and concluded his column...