Word: april
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Late March/Early April 1989--The committee first discusses Linda S. Wilson, vice president at the University of Michigan...
...officials involved in harassing the whistle-blowers was John McManus, who is also the subject of investigation by the subcommittee. McManus, a former deputy assistant commissioner of the IRS, was permitted to retire quietly from the agency in 1987 after a tax case against him was initiated. In April 1988, shortly after Barnard's subcommittee stumbled across his case, the IRS sent McManus a "notice of deficiency" seeking nearly $100,000 in back taxes and penalties...
...could stay and hear the other witnesses. Congressional veterans were stunned. Said a committee staffer: "It looked as if he had nothing better to do than sit and listen to people read statements." Cavazos is also handicapped by his lack of familiarity with elementary- and secondary- education issues. In April, for example, he incorrectly told reporters that Minnesota provides transportation across district lines as part of its "choice" plan, which will soon allow parents to select schools for their children anywhere in the state...
...drift lower this year. Their best explanation: a combination of high U.S. interest rates, which make the dollar attractive to foreign investors, and the political woes of West Germany and Japan. The Japanese have yet to pick a successor to Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, who announced his resignation in April over a stock scandal; in West Germany, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrat Union has lost two important local elections this year. Moreover, even though the yield on such securities as ten-year U.S. Treasury bonds has slipped from 9.2% earlier this month to 8.8% last week, it remains higher...
...Traders continued to snap up dollars after Washington reported that, with exports up 7.4%, the U.S. trade deficit narrowed to $8.86 billion in March, down from $9.82 billion the previous month. A day later investors shrugged off the news that the Consumer Price Index rose a sharp 0.7% in April because the gain reflected a record 11.4% surge in gasoline prices that is not expected to recur...