TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES
TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES Coming Next: The Leveraged Pregnancy The Research Institute of America is selling a monthly special report entitled "The 'Family Device' For Building Executive Wealth."...
...Number Two Was the Mercedes Owner’s Manual The largest-circulation periodical for doctors is a semiannual publication costing $20 a year called Physicians’ Travel and Meeting Guide...
...Order Now...
...The Vice President Pulled the Missing 0Ring from His Credenza and Said, ‘I Knew I Forgot to Do Something This Morning’ The engines on Eastern Airlines LlOlls have shut down in flight six times since September 1981 because of confusion among maintenance personnel about who was responsible for the regular replacement of oil seals (“O-rings”) on engine bolts...
...Among the contents: "Hiring Your Own Youngsters-For A Triple Tax Break:’ “Lend Your Children Money...
...The leaflet adds, “now government contracts are easier to get than ever before...
...In a promotional leaflet for the book, the publsher prom once you’ve mastered its techniques you’ll be able “to pick u easy defense contracts for up to $10,000 over the phonewithout even having to submit a bid...
...OP Two, Bill Four!’ Doctors in the military reserves can count operations they perform on civilian patients as “drill time” and get paid twice, by the patient and the government...
...We Don’t Think of It as More and More Money,’ She Added, ‘But as Fewer and Fewer Stamps’ Last month, on the same day that the US...
...and Receive a Free Copy of 'Creative Cost Overruns' Prentice-Hall has announced the publication of a 27-step guide called Winning Government Contracts...
...Anderson replied, "We made contact at the vice-presidential level...
...When testifying recently before the National Transportation Safety Board, Samuel Anderson, the FAA’s principal inspector for Eastern, was asked whether, in response to the engine failures, he had sent out his inspectors to observe the changing of bolts and seals firsthand...
...Postal Service requested an increase in the price of a first-class stamp to 23 cents, the postmaster general revealed that he had signed a $47,000-a-month lease for a Cessna Citation 2 executive jet for the use of about ten executives in the postal service...
...The report costs $3 a month plus postage and is itself tax deductible...
...But an investigation by the El Paso Times found that $94.8 million of the money was spent to underwrite private financing for oil rigs already built and in operation off the coast of Mississippi...
...Well, It’s the Thought That Counts Last August, after a trip to border areas hurt by the devaluation of the Mexican peso, President Reagan set up a task force under Vice President Bush to explore ways to stimulate the local economy...
...Consider A Sale to Your InLaws...
...Assistant Postmaster General Mary J. Layton explained to The Washington Post that the jet “is not so much to save a lot of money, or some money, but to save executive time...
...Borrow It Back and Sa Taxes Two Ways:’ and “ Paper Losses on Stock...
...According to a follow-up in The New York Times, some of the money was also spent on the development of rental property near Palm Springs, California...
...None of the money constituted new aid, but had already been allocated under existing programs...
...The following month Bush announced $116 million in federal projects that he said would help the areas...
Vol. 15 • December 1983 • No. 9
