Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large numbers of Faculty members to compromise their opinions of what may be the best investment policy for the sake of most effectively showing their disenchantment with the Corporation's current policy. And it shows their desire to establish a clear, coherent and conscionable policy that takes into account more than just the fate of Harvard's investment portfolio...
...typical example, according to the indictment: in June 1974 Co-Defendant Mitchell, a Georgia businessman who acted as Lance's "blind" trustee when Lance became federal Budget Director, had only $97 in his checking account. But he wrote a check for $200,000, payable to Lancelot, a company owned by Lance and his wife LaBelle. The next day Lance and others got another bank to loan Mitchell $100,000 to partially cover the check. A couple of weeks later a third bank made a $100,000 loan to Mitchell. During that period, Mitchell also arranged a $175,000 loan...
...pronouncement by an Iranian religious judge that the Shah should be assassinated "in any country where found." The crowds in Tehran were particularly vociferous in attacking New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, who introduced the resolution, and his wife Marion, who helped obtain the Iran Air account for a New York public relations firm...
...lack of support for sentences that have been pronounced by the revolutionary courts against officials who used torture and murder as instruments of policy. In one hourlong televised interview last week, a former interrogator for SAVAK, the Shah's secret police, broke down as he delivered a chilling account of the atrocities that had been committed during the Shah's reign. At the end, the announcer asked...
Encouraged, Jordan turned to the typewriter, determined to make a sale before the $3,000 in his savings account forced him to return to teaching. In 1970, just before the money ran out, his first article was sold to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED; since then he has handled dozens of magazine assignments and produced four other books including A False Spring, among the best books ever written about baseball-or, for that matter, about growing up. "I had to write that book," Jordan says. "It was my way of coming to terms with myself and what happened to me. Once...