Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supporters. An additional problem for the President is that any White House attempt to stonewall the Rodino committee by denying access to any further evidence runs the risk of alienating two of Nixon's most helpful supporters: Vice President Gerald Ford and Republican Senate Leader Hugh Scott. Ford seems to be opening a greater distance between himself and the President. He still backs the White House view that Rodino is off on a "fishing expedition" for evidence and ought to specify "a bill of particulars" against Nixon before seeking the supporting documents. But Ford irked Nixon's staff by declaring...
...appropriate word for Kiely's actions, and patronage, in any society which values justice, is a disgrace. It is a bad system which gives privileges in getting jobs to those with friends and connections that it denies to others. Such a system creates a class of outsiders, denied access to positions simply because they don't have friends in high places...
...began in 1971 to nose into Vesco's operations abroad. Sears said that he tried for months to persuade his old political friend John Mitchell to help Vesco get access to William Casey, then the SEC chairman, so that the financier could plead his case in person. Mitchell appeared sympathetic, but nothing happened, though Sears pointed out that Vesco had made a substantial contribution to Nixon's 1968 election campaign and that "he represented himself as being close to the Nixon family...
...students asked him what application the Greek gods might have to their lives today. Miller mulled over the question while attending a scholarly symposium, where he heard Radical Theologian William Hamilton say that today's students' spiritual search "looks like polytheism," that the young want "total access to all the gods of men." Now Miller, 38, is himself advocating a return to the gods, but not merely for the young. In a sketchy, exasperating but provocative book, The New Polytheism (Harper & Row; $4.95), he recommends that Western civilization return to the polytheism that attended its birth...
...insurance companies also issue ransom insurance, they have good reason for denying it. Unlike Lloyd's, U.S. insurance companies must register their forms and rate schedules in the public files of state insurance departments. Thus would-be kidnapers could easily determine which firms issue ransom insurance, gain illegal access to the company's files and find out to whom the policies are issued. So American insurers often euphemistically label ransom coverage as robbery, physical-damage or personal-injury insurance. Some ransom clauses are buried in riders on bankers' bonds, which insure companies against embezzlement or other theft...