Word: benjamin
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...name a prosecutor whenever there is "specific information" lodged against any of some 240 top officials, whether or not it meets the legal standard of "probable cause" to believe a crime has been committed. Attorney General Smith argues that the act is unconstitutional and wants to abolish it; Benjamin Civiletti, Attorney General under Carter, says the law's scope should be reduced...
Probe International, a small Stamford, Conn., firm headed by Benjamin Weiner, a former foreign service officer, offers its own custom-tailored reports. When one American multinational asked Weiner to determine whether it was safe to set up an assembly plant in Sri Lanka, he spent months interviewing government officials and members of the opposition party in the capital of Colombo, then advised going ahead, though he cautioned that both the regime in power and the opposition should first make it clear that they would actually welcome the project...
...Hotel: "A total stranger ran up to me and said, 'Don't get out of the car! Go to work! The Pope's been shot!' " CBS Anchorman Dan Rather was attending a breakfast meeting with network affiliates in Los Angeles when Senior Executive Producer Burton Benjamin tapped him on the shoulder. Rather raced to the nearby CBS bureau, where a satellite link with New York was hastily arranged so that he could anchor the day's reporting from Los Angeles. NBC'S John Chancellor delivered a series of news bulletins throughout the day from...
...DIED. Benjamin Henry Sheares, 73, obstetrician and gynecologist who served since 1971 as President and ceremonial head of state of Singapore; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Singapore...
...When you consider the trend all year." Benjamin H. Schatz '81, former GSA president, said recently, "it's getting to be a little too much...