Word: actualizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision on communications and a noon decision on insurance. Replied Rockefeller: "I think that's absurd. The decisions you refer to affect the American people. They don't affect the Rockefeller family." Throughout, he was at pains to separate his family's wealth from the actual management of companies. "I have not followed the management of the companies I invest in. They are investments for investment, not for control." Though his family has heavy investments in oil stocks, he reminded the committee that he favors an excess profits tax on oil companies...
...juxtaposition of Daniel Ellsberg, William E. Colby, and Victory Marchetti all in the same week (together, incidentally, with Canada's Boston Consul General, whose visit was unreported), was largely fortuitous. Colby was tentatively scheduled two months ago although his actual appearance was in doubt until late in the previous week; Marchetti was obtained by a Nieman Fellow who knew him, knew Colby was coming, and asked Marchetti to speak some time before or after Colby; and Ellsberg was booked on the day before his talk when he called me to say he was in town and I then invited...
...budgeted deficit under the press Board of Directors' plan to end the persistent deficit over a three year period ending in July 1975 was $117,000, while the HUP's actual deficit...
...sanitary engineer ran some tests on a few food samples out he was too late to check the actual food that might have done the damage. He asked a few questions about how the food was handled and was satisfied that everything and everyone in the kitchen was spic and span. And he ran a stool test on one stricken student and was pleased to find that there was no trace of anything embarrassing, except that the stool test could not reveal the embarrassing substances anyway...
...general and was identified with the Phoenix program which was one part of that, which was to assasinate infrastructure--that is, civilians, civilian political cadres of Vietnam. Since most of this killing took place at night, on roads and whatnot, the program didn't in every respect increase the actual killings, because a lot of bodies were counted to fulfill quotas. However, the figures they gave out were 70,000 killed over a matter of several years, and by all evidence, by every testimony, the Colby policy of assigning quotas down through the line had the predictable effect not only...