Word: blower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...human kindness during the surreal snowfall last weekend, now they're suffering the hangover. Case in point: as hundreds of car owners dug their vehicles from mountains of plowed-and-packed snow throughout the city's five boroughs Tuesday night, Robert DeJesus was relieved of his brand new snow blower at gunpoint. "I still can't get over it, and I've lived in New York City my whole life," DeJesus, a superintendent of a Bronx apartment building, told the New York Daily News. DeJesus and his 17-year-old nephew were trying to clear the front of his building...
...happy week for the heads of the nation's tobacco companies. Former Brown & Williamson research chief Jeffrey Wigand, the industry's highest-level whistle-blower to date, began giving depositions to lawyers for the state of Mississippi, which is suing the industry to recoup the public-health costs it attributes to smoking. Though Brown & Williamson obtained a gag order on Wigand from the courts in Kentucky, where the firm is based, a Mississippi judge refused to honor the ruling...
...report on Mark Whitacre, who acted as a whistle blower in an investigation into price fixing at the Archer Daniels Midland Co. [BUSINESS, Aug. 28], suggested that there were people in Decatur, Illinois, who considered Whitacre a villain. You inaccurately cited my letter to the local newspaper as representative of that view. My letter merely observed that Whitacre had violated the unwritten protective code of executive conduct shared by large multinational corporations. I also expressed sympathy for Whitacre and his family for what I thought they were about to experience as a result of what I presumed...
SUPPORT FOR A WHISTLE BLOWER...
...ever challenged the extent of Whitacre's determination to succeed, which makes his casting as a whistle blower so unusual. Whitacre, say those who have worked with him, seemed happy and in a hurry. "He'd just swarm over a problem until it was solved," says Professor Gerald Combs of Cornell University, where Whitacre earned a Ph.D. in nutritional biochemistry in 1983. "He was like a saw running on 220 volts instead of 110. We used to tease him about how wired...