Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swing, involving hundreds of scientists, dozens of Government, university and private laboratories, and several computer and data centers. With contributions from other Government agencies and private organizations like the Hughes institute, the total annual cost of the project will probably rise to $200 million, which over 15 years will account for the $3 billion price...
Meanwhile, the spreading scandal continued to collect victims. Yannis Mantzouranis, former secretary to the Greek Cabinet and a Koskotas confidant, was arrested on allegations that he received $2 million from Koskotas in a Swiss bank account. Also jailed was Panayotis Vournas, general manager of the postal service. He was charged with depositing 7 billion drachmas (nearly $50 million) in the Bank of Crete in an attempt to shore it up shortly before the scandal broke last fall...
...authored with Bob Woodward, and, as a fictional character, by Jack Nicholson in Heartburn, based on a cleverly barbed novel by his former wife, Nora Ephron. All the while, he was waging an off-and-on struggle with a project that he described to friends as "an account of the witch-hunts leading up to the McCarthy...
Several hours later, a fuming Keverian gathered reporters in his own office and noted that he and the House leadership defended Shannon's budget and opposed the floor amendment to cut the expert witness account...
Shannon's anger was directed at a House vote March 8 to cut $1.9 million from an account that pays for his consultants. The cut would hinder his office in obtaining expert witnesses for a variety of cases from nuclear power to hazardous waste...