Word: broking
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Radcliffe officials admitted the college was engaged in a "strategic planning process," but they divulged few other details, even in the face of intense media scrutiny and complaints from alumnae. A week after the story broke, Peggy M. McIntosh '56, second vice president of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association (RCAA), resigned in protest of the official silence...
Radcliffe alumnae have been eagerly awaiting anannouncement of any kind from their institutionsince last spring, when news first broke that theRadcliffe Board of Trustees had entered into anintensive round of talks with Harvard withoutconsulting them...
...ground in Kosovo are now digging in deeper. In a clear message to the West, troops last week began laying mines along Kosovo's borders within sight of Western television cameras. The mining operation is probably also designed to help stop such incidents as the spasm of fighting that broke out late last week between Serbian forces and Albanian-based K.L.A. forces. The Yugoslav military issued a furious statement decrying the "aggression"--and reportedly lobbed some artillery shells into Albania for good measure. The image of a well-trained and well-financed K.L.A. using bases in Macedonia and Albania...
...Rise of the Mafia Gangland: How the FBI in New York (1978) Broke the Mob (1995) The Mafia Mystique (1975) The Mafia Cookbook...
...games in Los Angeles," says Saporito, "the games have changed into a pure money event." Although Johnson & Johnson is the first major company to pull out and sponsors such as Coca-Cola have remained on board, no new corporations have signed on as Olympic backers since the scandal broke. Now some observers believe that the rumbling set off by the Johnson & Johnson decision could turn into an avalanche if the IOC does not succeed in cleaning...