Pentagon stalls small business aid in defense contracts
Washington report shows the Defense Department blocks Congress backed efforts to boost minority and small business contracts. Memos reveal attempts to sidestep a new office by placing it under each service, with Dale Church as director. Rep. Addabbo protests. McIntyre promises executive action.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
Pentagon
Congress
Defense Department
Defense
Carter
Dale Church
Army
Navy
Air Force
Secretary of Defense
Joseph Addabbo
D-N.y
Harold Brown
Church
Peter Grant
Addabbo
James McIntyre
Special Sun
Brown
Quincy
Los Angeles
Federal Trade Commission
American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
American Board of Plastic Surgeons
FTC
Jack Klugman
Beverly Hills
Sacramento
Robert Crais
Tony Capaccio
Plastic Surgeon’s Society
Harvey Zarem
Zarem
Surgeons’ Society
Plastic Surgeons’ Society
Champagne Buoyed by Record U.S. Imports in 1978
The Champagne News and Information Bureau reports 1978 U S shipments from France at 7,169,224 bottles, up 48.5 percent from 1977. French producers hold 650 million bottles aging, offering a three year supply. The surge mirrors decades of rising demand, independent of the oil crisis.
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Champagne News and Information Bureau
France
Today in history highlights from March 15, 1979
Key events across centuries include Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 B.C. in Rome, Champlain setting sail in 1603, Maine's 1820 statehood, Pershing’s 1916 mission against Pancho Villa, Darwin raid in 1943, Aristotle Onassis’s 1975 death in Paris, and recent Cold War and aviation notes such as Bloody border clashes, Nixon’s resignation stance, and Concorde sonic booms along the Atlantic coast.
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Associated Press
B.C
Julius Caesar
Senate
Rome
Samuel de Champlain
New World
Maine
Union
John Pershing
Mexico
Pancho Villa
Price monitoring grows tougher for buyers amid disguises
AP report notes purchasing agents face hidden price hikes through packaging changes, size shifts, delayed discounts, revised payment terms, and added charges. Suppliers seek to pass inflation to buyers while statisticians and officials struggle to track true costs across thousands of firms and millions of products. Janet L Norwood cautions that BLS data this year are not encouraging.
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John Cunniff
NEW York
Barry Bosworth
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bosworth
Council On Wage and Price Stability
Purchasing Magazine
Council On
Janet L. Norwood
Parker clan of Pecos details and deaths through 1900s
A Pecos historical note traces the Parker family from 1884 arrivals through clan deaths. Peyton Parker, first Anderson County sheriff, dies 1887. Jane Cornwell and Sallie Parker die in the 1898 smallpox outbreak. Family ties link Mamie Parker, Sam Houston, Lewis, Nona, and others to the old Pecos House and mining ventures in Sonora and Mexico with later moves to Barstow and Grandfalls. Mamie and Baby Lou graduate Grayson College, aided by John T. McElroy aware of their hardship.
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Parker
Silas Parker
Rachel Palmer
Rachel Plumer
Cynthia
Peyton Parker
Republic of Texas
Anderson County
Parker Fort
Pecos
Nancy Sciphone Galloway
Lewis
Sam Houston
Betty
Lewis Parker
Sallie Cornwell
Young Peyton
Mamie
Baby Lou
Ione
Nona
Charles L
Peyton
Phillip L. Smith
J.T
Phillip P
Smith
W.J. Goggin
Reeves County Sheriff’s Department
Jone
W.A. Cooling
Wilton
Iowa
John T. McElroy
Luke Cornwell
Luke
Jane Cornwell
Parkers
Old Pioneer Cemetery
Evergreen
Sallie Parker
Nona Parker Smith
Barstow
Mexico
Sonora
States
Arizona
Sam Houston Parker
Chihuahua and Pacific Railroad
Grandfalls
T&p Railroad
Allamore
Sierra Blanca
Edna
Pat Carson
Mamie Parker
Pecos House
McElroy
Grayson College
Whitewright
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Moshnetan
Perranporth
England
St. Piran’s
Britain
Cornwall
St. Piran
Editorial
Ezra Hume
Elegram
N.E.A
Musin
By Alton Hughes
Nancy
Parker’s Hotel
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