Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suspended Navy official, Stuart E. Berlin, agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in the continuing investigation which has resulted in a dozen guilty pleas so far. He is to be sentenced June 2 and could face as long as 25 years in prison and fines of as much...
Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph J. Aronica declined to comment when asked whether there would be more guilty pleas or how extensively Berlin's testimony might be used against other defendants. He said only, "The total investigation is moving along very quickly...
...Berlin, indicted in the investigation dubbed "Ill Wind," pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery, receiving a bribe, wire fraud and making false statements. Teledyne Industries pleaded guilty to conspiracy and two counts of making false statements in connection with a contract with one of its divisions--Teledyne Electronics of Newbury Park, Calif.--worth about $24 million...
...learned backward-looking lessons about building scale. "Buildings in general are too big," he says. "I'm happy doing houses and buildings a bit bigger than houses." The two largest projects Holl has designed, a planned addition to the University of Minnesota/Twin Cities School of Architecture and a West Berlin library extension, would each be only about a tenth as big as a modest skyscraper...
...young performers, defeats the whole sentimental purpose of the original number: to demonstrate that a married couple well along into middle age can not only remain lovebirds but still get their knees up into the air. The show's archival curiosity is Mr. Monotony, a dance interpreting an Irving Berlin song; the number was dropped out of town from two successive shows. Here it is amusing, but its fate is understandable: this pure divertissement would be distracting in any musical with a plot...