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That will add one more probe of General Dynamics to several already under way. In New Haven, Conn., the company remains the target of a year-old grand jury investigation into a former director's charges that it submitted false billing claims. In Washington, the Internal Revenue Service is reportedly examining whether General Dynamics has been cheating on taxes, and the Securities and Exchange Commission wants to know if the firm manipulated its stock price in the late 1970s...
Getting from the Hill to the White House is no easy feat. He has a Senate race to run in 1986 and a Senate to lead all the time, which makes him a target for every political pot-shooter around. Out in Ellsworth, Kans., the other day a man came up with a sign on his hat that said DUMP DOLE. With bemused aggressiveness the Senator confronted the fellow and declared, "You're not going to beat me." The tormentor was flustered and half admitted the task might be impossible...
...McCarr, Ky., a grocery and grill well known as a gathering spot of the strikers became a target for gunfire. A stick of dynamite tossed last month into a nonunion truck on Route 1056 near McCarr blew a three-foot hole in the vehicle but caused no injury. One explosion at the Kentucky Power Co. plant knocked out service to some 3,000 customers, including one coal company that had bought a unionized mine and reopened it as a nonunion one. Another blast blew up a power line leading to the Sprouse Creek Processing Co., the Massey subsidiary that...
...stake in the firm, Power Machines, but the deal was blocked by Russia's antitrust authority, reportedly for national-security reasons. The firm's owners said this month that they are negotiating to sell a majority stake to the Russian government instead. "Success automatically makes you a target," says Mikhail Kozhokin, vice president of KROS, a major Russian consulting and promotional firm. "Once your business becomes a success, you'll have to spend 70% of your time defending rather than developing...
...processing companies are hubs for millions of payment records. It is the juiciest target for an individual who wants account numbers. It is a honeypot for identity thieves." CHRIS HOOFNAGLE, senior consul for the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C., on a security breach at a credit-card payment-processing company in Arizona. More than 40 million accounts may have been exposed to fraud...