The theater's board of directors voted in August to change a housing contract for the man, Joe Patten, 83, citing his "deteriorating health".
The Times has some examples of these happy coincidences:* Armed with the power his committee posts give him over the Pentagon, Stevens helped save a $450-million military housing contract for an Anchorage businessman.
She was also facing an inquiry into charges that she had contacted a developer to arrange a housing contract in return for the developer's endowing a chair that Dr. Hitchcock would fill once she left the presidency.
In a separate dealing, the senator, whose clout at the Pentagon is legendary, helped this private-sector patron secure a $450 million Air Force housing contract over Pentagon objections.
Taken together, the new troop policy and housing contract represent perhaps the most concrete examples of the Pentagon's long-term commitment to Iraq and acknowledgment that rebuilding the country will probably take years and large numbers of American forces.
When there are clear demands for sex, such as someone demanding sex at a job interview or for a housing contract – examples of which have dominated recent French media coverage of the issue – a single incident can be enough to go to trial.
