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...units were bought this year, without competitive bidding, at $12,000 apiece. Commodore Stuart Platt, the Navy's first "competition advocate general," called the $16,571 payment "ridiculous." As he inspected the unit in Norfolk last week, he promised, "We are not trying to sweep this under the rug. We are learning from our mistakes." Indeed, the amount of Navy purchases made through competitive bidding increased from 26% in 1982 to 38% last year. The results so far have been encouraging. When the refrigerator contract was put out for bids this July, the Navy was able...
...that love but to the extent that it makes you feel miserable," Get it? Seeing the film won't help. Murray might as well have said, "Yes, and there where you see the poor peasants walking along the river is where we got this great but on an oriental rug...
...slave, been shot at nine times and married seven, once on a $100 bet. The Kid exhibits his art work on his front lawn. ("I used to have such a beautiful yard," said the wistful Mrs. Watson, who also used to have a nice piece of white rug before the Kid turned it into a hat:) The Kid makes found art. An aluminum shark, a tin cow, a pair of pants on sticks, originally meant to be a sculpture of John Henry but never finished, thus called Half of John Henry. The Kid makes suits out of Naugahyde...
...days. Institutional investors roundly condemned the Disney accord, although small investors holding Disney shares mainly suffered in silence. New York City's Alliance Capital Manage ment lost $1.5 million on its 100,000 shares of Disney. Said Chairman Dave Williams: "We feel like we've had the rug pulled out from under us." Three Disney shareholders filed suit in superior court in Los Angeles asking that Disney's purchase of Steinberg's shares be rescinded and that Disney pay a dividend to all shareholders...
...laws, may be graduating from mischief to misfeasance. Ronald Austin, 20, a U.C.L.A. student who told the press last year that he had cracked a Defense Department computer network, was arraigned in Los Angeles last month. Caught with $1,600 worth of illegally ordered airline tickets stashed under a rug, he is being charged under California's new laws with twelve counts of maliciously accessing a computer and one count of concealing stolen goods. Maximum sentence: nearly eight years and $10,000 for each count...