Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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STAGE WHISPERS. Hard by the upper-level entrance to the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station is a stone arch. By stationing themselves at one corner and partners some 50 ft. away, visitors can articulate messages sotto voce-and have them delivered with the fidelity of a CB receiver...
Nixon had tried to resign voluntarily from the New York bar, as he had done successfully in California and from Supreme Court practice. He did not contest the charges, which were brought by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York...
What was self-styled Field Marshal Amin doing during the raid? As the C130s approached Entebbe, an old acquaintance of his, Colonel Baruch Bar-Lev, a former Israeli military attaché in Uganda, phoned him from Tel Aviv. By the time Amin and Bar-Lev hung up 20 minutes later, the Israelis' 50-minute raid was well under...
Government help has two aspects. First, import controls effectively bar processors from buying peanuts from such other countries as India and Brazil. More important, farmers can legally grow peanuts only on Government-set acreage allotments-and any peanuts that processors do not want to buy can, in effect, be sold to the Government at artificially high prices. This year's support price, scheduled to be announced next month, is expected to go as high as $415 a ton, v. a world price of $250. Each year the Government buys up huge amounts of peanuts; last year it purchased about...
Many businessmen feel Sporkin is overreaching his authority. Milton Freeman, who heads an American Bar Association subcommittee on SEC enforcement activities, insists that bribes, payoffs and political contributions are not "material" to stockholder interests -as long as dollar amounts remain relatively minor compared with company income. Says he: "If payoffs are being made overseas, and it's not hurting the company, it's no business of the SEC." Sporkin's reply: "What can be more important to stockholders than knowing how companies account-or don't account-for their money...