Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time covering up its own long-stalled attack on the so-called Koreagate scandal? Countering such suspicions, Speaker Tip O'Neill and Majority Leader Jim Wright last week persuaded former Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski to lead the House ethics committee investigation into the whole affair...
...intellectual free-for-all. His opponents were British Philosophers Anthony Quinton and Maurice Cranston, who had been invited to debate Adler on his own turf-the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. Moderated by Bill Moyers and billed as a medieval-style "public disputation" on the future of democracy, the affair celebrated the 25th anniversary of Adler's Chicago-based Institute for Philosophical Research...
...Carter sees it, the Kremlin, while waging a propaganda battle with the U.S., continues to pursue the fundamental Soviet interest in SALT and détente. Brezhnev's letter and his dressing down of Toon were "decidedly less strong than the Tass account of the affair," noted a top White House aide. Besides, Brezhnev's meeting with Toon had its constructive side. TIME has learned that Brezhnev had put off meeting with Toon, who is perceived as a hardliner, despite Toon's repeated requests for a meeting after he arrived in Moscow last December; the Kremlin boss...
...company while she is still in active command. With some 20% of Beech's stock held by Olive Ann, her two daughters (who have no role in management) and a nephew, Frank Hedrick, 67, Beech's president since 1968. the company is very much a family affair. But after Olive Ann's death or retirement, Beech could conceivably fall victim to an unfriendly takeover bid like that experienced by one of its major competitors, Piper Aircraft, at the hands of Chris-Craft Corp...
Same Dividend. Other bankers have estimated that the Chiasso affair -named for the town in the Italian-speaking Swiss canton of Ticino where the scandal centered-could cost the firm some $400 million. Nonetheless. Aeppli assured stockholders that the rest of Crédit Suisse's affairs were in good order and indicated that this year's dividend would most likely be the same as that paid in 1976: $32 per bearer share...