Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Were the Iranian helicopters the only thing in Miller's way, he would probably be confirmed in the near future, but another obstacle, perhaps not of his own creation, looms even larger. Textron's operations are currently under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission involving foreign bribery, secret bank accounts and questionable billing practices. At the time that some of these alleged practices were performed, they were not illegal, but Textron never reported any of them once the SEC called for corporate statements. The SEC investigation may take up to six months, and while Miller himself may be cleared...
...conceivable that the bank stock sale was a purely financial decision. But if the University decided to unload bank stock that had proven to be more trouble than it was worth, it surely would have chosen to do it this way--with a minimum of publicity, without meeting the inherent social issues head-on, without having to take a moral stand...
...alumni in the University, this composition grossly underrepresents students. The faculty and alumni members are always overwhelmingly from the business and financial worlds, as is the Corporation itself--this year's ACSR contains one economics professor, one business professor, one professor of political economy, two lawyers and a bank vice president, for example. It is unrealistic to expect a body with this built-in conservative financial bias to make socially responsible investment decisions...
...only fair now to quote what Professor Said himself says about this: "The present Palestinian position therefore is [notice the careful formulation--he says the present position, i.e. subject to change] Israeli withdrawal from the West bank (Judea and Samaria) and Gaza; the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on those territories..." But in a recent television interview, Professor Said stated that the PLO demands self-determination for the Palestinians not only in these areas mentioned above, but also in Israel as Israeli citizens...
Dundee tells how he had barnstormed the country with the young Clay and finally brought him into Madison Square Garden in 1962 to fight Sonny Banks. "Banks hit Ali with the finest left hook I've ever seen. It would have floored King Kong. Ali's eyes glazed like he was out of it, and his keester hit the canvas. Then he sprang back up, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and stopped the guy cold. He won by a knockout. That's when I knew for sure. I really thought for a split second that Bank's punch was goodbye...