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Does that include any work you did with the Pentagon?

Clark:

Well, we have never done any work with the Pentagon. State Department, yes. Department of Labor, yes. Department of Education, yes, and the postal service. But there's always been a problem. In fact, there's one thing that's hanging over us now where the Department of Labor contracts, six years after we completed them, they are, on the basis of final audit, they're saying that they are disallowing half a million dollars. We have to pay them half a million dollars. I don't know where they expect us to get a half million dollars to pay them for a contract disallowance, when we were audited continuously during those contracts; the contract officers would raise questions and we would answer them, or make modifications. But six years after that they're now saying that they're disallowing half a million dollars that they paid us. I think the Department of Education might do the same thing.

Q:

I gather the statute of limitations--their position is a statute of limitations does not apply?

Clark:

I don't know. The lawyers have it--I don't know where they expect to get a half million dollars plus from us. We'll just dissolve the corporation.

Q:

Before I come back to another question on small business here, another question about--a non-political question about Hilton. Is





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