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Healy, who Williams described as a "very, very experienced and skilled mediator," said a mediator can serve as "a catalytic agent who is presumed to be neutral and acceptable to both sides...
...center of the new charges is Navy Lieut. Paula Coughlin, one of 26 women sexually molested during last year's Las Vegas Hilton convention of the Tailhook Association, an organization of Navy and Marine pilots. Coughlin told officials at the Naval Investigative Service in November that the agent assigned to her case, Laney Spigener, not only invited her to dinner and a drive in the country but, as she was sorting through photographs of Navy and Marine aviators in an attempt to identify those who had pawed her, also called her "sweetcakes." Spigener was removed from the case and suspended...
Calling Clinton a "new captain with a new course," the New Yorker portrayed the nominee as the ultimate agent of social and economic change...
...Over a couple of beers, Doug Keller was telling fellow Optimist Clay Smith about an experiment one of his Syracuse University graduate students was doing. As part of Keller's graduate class in materials science, the student was trying out various chemicals to see if there was some agent that would allow drills to penetrate coal more easily. When he applied ammonia, explained Keller, the raw coal broke down into fine particles, separating the purer hydrocarbons from rock and pyritic sulfur and significantly reducing its ash content...
Those were the first heady days, when the learning curve was steep and the flexibility almost unlimited. They switched from ammonia to the refrigerant Freon as the separating agent without filing a single proposal, cost analysis or environmental-impact statement, without any of the constraints big corporations face daily. If something worked, they used it; if it didn't, they tried something else...