Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Morris, 40, and his colleagues are paying for their naiveté in Boston federal court, where Redgrave is suing the B.S.O. for breach of contract and violation of her civil rights. In testimony that was by turns rambling, deft and once even tearful, Redgrave, 47, argued that the cancellation of her $31,000, six-performance contract effectively blacklisted her for more than a year. The orchestra "may not be E.F. Hutton," her lawyer told the jury, "but when it talks, people listen." Redgrave testified that she was turned down for a role in a Broadway production for fear that...
...tried to determine the full extent of the security breach, critics - inside the agency and out "questioned how so unreliable a man could have been assigned to sensitive security work. Says a retired agent on the West Coast: "Why was he on that job, of all jobs? You should bury him working draft dodgers or stolen cars." One theory, which has been raised by many agents but with little substantiation, is that Miller, who was a Mormon, had been given some protection by fellow Mormons within the bureau. He had been transferred to intelligence after the Los Angeles division director...
...withdrawals by jittery depositors, are angry about the parting payment and are said to be pressing F.C.A.'s board to recoup the cash. That, however, will not be easy. Knapp arranged for the $2 million to be deposited in a foreign account. The money is probably beyond the Breach of U.S. authorities and F.C.A. share; holders. While Government regulators back home seek new ways to keep F.C.A. afloat, notably by backing the company's plan to sell $2 billion worth of new certificates of deposit, Knapp last week was reportedly vacationing in Europe. He is unlikely...
Back at home, Conrad is once again engulfed in vegetation grown rank with lack of care. "With my hands," he recalls, "I made a breach in the thick curtain of asparagus ferns that tumbled down from the top of the wardrobe and floated like puffs of smoke between the floor and the ceiling." There, amid the old green plants that recall a painting by Henri Rousseau, he reflects upon the failures of religion and revolt. Fortunately for the writer of these bitter meditations, his current fiction has proved more promising than his past careers...
...National Institutes of Health. He explained his frustration at a congressional hearing: "No mentor of young physicians and scientists beginning their academic careers in reproductive medicine can deny the central importance of IVF-embryo transfer research." In Hodgen's view the curb on research funds is also a breach of government responsibility toward "generations of unborn" and toward infertile couples who still desperately want help...