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...island's siren song is simple and successful: "Come back to Jamaica," the slogan goes. But the way in which the giant U.S. ad agency Young & Rubicam landed the Caribbean country's business is a tale of bribery and racketeering, according to a federal grand jury in New Haven, Conn. Last week the panel indicted the ad agency on charges that it paid about $900,000 in kickbacks between 1981 and 1986 to win and keep the Jamaica Tourist Board's account...
...impact there was a thundering shudder, followed by the wail of the ship's siren. In one of the Maxim Gorky's restaurants, as the pianist was playing The Green, Green Grass of Home, a heavy loudspeaker crashed down on the instrument. The passengers, almost all West German pensioners who had boarded in Bremerhaven, stumbled on deck into freezing...
Battat suggested increasing the visibility of the blue lights and attach- ing a floodlight or a siren to the phones. Theemergency mechanisms would be set off when anyonepicks up the phone, said Battat. "If you're beingraped, that might be the extra 10 seconds youneed," he said...
...when the final siren sounded, the scoreboard read Harvard 5, Boston College 4. And the Crimson's seven-year absence from the championship game had ended in front of 14,448 Boston Garden spectators...
Many of those in the capital who are talking about the pay hike favor it, as do students of government who contend that too many of the most talented men and women pick private industry over public service because of the siren song of much higher pay. But for many Americans "out there" who already feel that life inside the Washington Beltway is a world vastly different from their own, the prospect of such big raises right at budget-cutting time is cause for concern, derision, even anger. At their current salary of $89,500 a year, Congressmen already make...