Word: bells
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Moustache (clear as a great bell!)...the play becomes a virtuoso exhibition of muscle-flexings in alliteration, assonance and puns...
Dirty Dozen. Attorney General Griffin Bell announced the Kearney indictment after informing Jimmy Carter. The yearlong investigation of Kearney and other agents was led by J. Stanley Pottinger, assistant Attorney General for civil rights under Presidents Nixon and Ford. Last year FBI Director Clarence Kelley assured Congress that all bureau abuses had been uncovered. But then a Socialist Workers Party lawsuit produced new, damning evidence of repeated "black bag jobs," or illegal break-ins, by FBI agents in several cities. Pottinger was permitted to assemble a task force of Justice Department lawyers and FBI agents to probe bureau excesses, starting...
Despite considerable internal pressure to kill the indictments, Attorney General Griffin Bell endorsed the investigators' recommendations and permitted Kearney's indictment. But this indictment represents only a small, if commendable, first step in the necessary process of bringing the FBI officials responsible for illegal activities to a full and complete accounting of their actions. The investigation must continue unimpeded...
...institutions. With the tuition cost of a private liberal arts education soaring to as high as $5,500 a year, colleges are finding it increasingly difficult to justify the expense-particularly since many of their graduates cannot find jobs. Practical "vocational" programs have become popular. Just last year T.H. Bell, then U.S. Commissioner of Education, declared, "It is our duty to provide our students with salable skills...
...Tunisian intellectuals complained, the people seem to be becoming increasingly materialistic. Those who can afford it hold lavish weddings at hotels like the Tunis Hilton, and ride Peugeots and Mercedes. Men with more modest resources practice other forms of conspicuous consumption, like wearing overpriced French clothes, usually unspeakably tight bell-bottoms and even tighter, half-buttoned shirts...