TO: All CWA Local 1081 Members
FROM: David H. Weiner, President
DATE: May 5, 2008
SUBJECT: 162nd CWA Local 1081 Email Trivia Contest
Below, please find the following four (4) questions for the 162nd CWA Local 1081 Email Trivia Contest. The first member of our Union to correctly answer all of the questions, via an E-mail message sent to cwa1081@aol.com, wins $50.00. You must provide your full name, title and the office to which you are assigned. As always, the winner is ineligible to play the contest again for thirty (30) days. Good luck!
State officials say they will soon ask Congress for more power to regulate the marketing of what type of private insurance plans to older Americans because they are still receiving complaints of high-pressure sales tactics that have led some beneficiaries to sign up for unsuitable policies.
Federal agencies are intensifying a criminal investigation of which industry and focusing on whether some lenders turned a blind eye to inflated income figures provided by borrowers.
For years, City Councilwoman Sandy Annabi of Yonkers was among the most vigorous critics of an enormous $600 million development proposal that called for 1,000 housing units, shops and a movie multiplex in the cliffs here over Sprain Lake. Now, however, federal prosecutors are investigating the development deal and leaning toward indicting Ms. Annabi, a 37-year-old Democrat, on corruption charges or other misconduct, according to a person involved in the investigation. Why?
On May 5, 1961, which astronaut became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.?





