Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your account of the Irish elections [June 27] gave disproportionate space to my candidature but neglected to mention the relevant fact that I was elected...
...exchange. It is the first of the city's three fully computerized exchanges-and one of its most overloaded. PLaza 8 machinery gagged on B. & B.'s volume of 10,000 calls a day. Steele's patience broke when he discovered that a major advertiser whose account was up for bids had been unable to reach the agency for nearly two days...
Benton & Bowles has company. Kohler Advertising, for example, protested that its service has been sporadic for six weeks; the agency is demanding "reparations" for a $15,000 account that it claims it lost as a result. Bess Myerson Grant, New York City's Commissioner of Consumer Affairs, has gone farther. She has demanded a rate cut and a $100 million refund for phone subscribers...
...from its figures on gold reserves. That ploy would tend to make the boycott look even more ineffective than it is. British statistics show that $222 million in South African gold entered the U.K. last year. Most of it is probably to be found in South Africa's account at the Bank of England, which does not divulge what it is holding-but which has received South African gold ever since that country's first mines were...
...following stories/impressions are results of a project for volunteers to see what it is like to live on a ward. The first is an account of a chronic, the second of an admitting ward. The latter is one where patients typically are coming and leaving all the time. The former is a ward filled with people who have not been helped by the efforts of many different people; and yet they are by no means forgotten, and a fair number of them can and do leave the hospital...