Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidential aides still pending. Beyond that, there is the simple maxim of never confronting today what can be put off until tomorrow. In law, delay is generally thought to favor a defendant. From a pocketbook point of view, that is particularly true for Nixon, since as President he has access to the kind of legal advice that would cost in six figures if he had to seek it privately...
Brandt's resignation confused his followers as much as it grieved them. It was hard for them to believe that he would give up his high office simply because of the spy scandal, even though Guillaume had had access to secret NATO documents and other sensitive matters. There were rumors, given wide circulation by the anti-Brandt newspapers of Axel Springer, that Guillaume had gathered data about indiscretions in Brandt's private life and had attempted to blackmail the Chancellor. One such unsubstantiated story: Brandt in the early 1950s had an affair with an East German woman...
...prize in national reporting to the Providence Journal-Bulletin's Jack White, 31, who broke details of President Nixon's minuscule income tax payments in 1970 and 1971. Although his scoop was the first in a series of revelations about questionable presidential tax deductions, White's access to confidential returns was a stark violation of Internal Revenue Service regulations; White has refused to say how or where he secured the Nixon returns...
...restructuring of the U.S. international air system. Both are needed, he maintains, to put Pan Am and T.W.A. on an equal footing with foreign competitors, most of which are nationally owned and totally subsidized. Foreign competitors also benefit from discriminatory landing fees and route restrictions that deny U.S. airlines access to profitable routes...
...bureaucracy, secrecy is too finely ingrained, too deeply integrated into the way things get done here, to be dispensed with that easily. Policy-makers are too used to the ease and efficiency of a decision-making process in which only the very few members of some central committee have access to the facts and are privy to power. Nowhere is this clearer than in the case of faculty appointments...