Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pennsylvania's Senator Richard Schweiker, the subcommittee's ranking Republican, joined the sharp questioning of Hendrie and at one point, disturbed by an account of confused procedures at the site, demanded, "Who's in control of a situation like this?" Concluded Kennedy: "Certainly this kind of process and this kind of procedure in terms of protection of the American people are completely unacceptable and completely inadequate...
...grew as they recited from the Koran; the time for execution was approaching. Shortly before 2 a.m., the prisoner, gaunt and ailing, was led from his dungeon death cell to the scaffolding. His hands were tied behind his back. Stepping to the gallows he cried out, according to one account, "Oh Lord, help me, for I am innocent!" Thirty-five minutes later, the body was cut down, taken away to a waiting air force plane and flown to the town of Larkana, 200 miles northeast of Karachi. There, in his family's burial plot, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto...
...amounts as low as $500. The interest will start at 6% (6.25% in savings banks) and rise gradually to 8% (8.25%) over five years; a saver who leaves $500 on deposit over the full eight years will get $386.17 in interest, vs. $244.06 in a regular 5% bank account. Savers will also be able to buy a five-year certificate pegged to the average five-year Treasury Note rate, currently 9.2%; interest on the new certificate will be 1.25% less than that rate, or 1% less if bought at a savings bank. In addition, the $1,000 minimum for certain...
...report said 200 were known dead in Yugoslavia and quoted the Albanian News Agency's account, which reported 35 persons killed and 50 injured in Albania, a southern neighbor...
...when Kevin Shaw and Scott Walker wrapped up a three-set, tie-break victory at number two doubles yesterday on Palmer Dixon's indoor courts, Darby's bank account suffered. Four singles triumphs and a sweep of the doubles matches gave Harvard precisely seven wins...