Word: buckleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...genteel Buckley clan of fashionable rural Connecticut has long championed free enterprise and political conservatism with considerable charm, commendable wit and decided moral convictions. But the Securities and Exchange Commission, after a 3½-year investigation of Buckley-controlled oil and gas companies, last week portrayed the family's own business practices as unethical and even unlawful. In effect, it accused the companies of having defrauded stockholders to feather the family's nest...
...consent decree filed in a federal district court in Washington, D.C., officers of the Buckley firms neither denied nor admitted having violated securities laws. But they did agree not to do in the future what the SEC contends they had done in the past. They also agreed to reimburse parties who the SEC claims had been defrauded or misled and relinquished oil and gas royalties that were deemed excessive. The cost will be about $800,000, an amount viewed by some experts on securities investigations as a mere slap on the wrist...
Midfielder Inga Larson, who headed home the championship winning goal, shadowed Huskie leading scorer Moira Buckley so diligently that the offensive MVP became a non-factor in the finals...
...panel discussion at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics, Mark H. Moore, Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice, debated the pros and cons of handgun control with Joan Buckley, president of People vs. Handguns--an organization in favor of handgun control--and Warren Cassidy, a member of the National Rifle Association and former mayor of Lynn...
...Buckley, a former sheriff of Middlesex County, said that he has "never heard of a good reason for owning a handgun." He said arguments against gun control were based on mistaken feelings of "machismo" found in owning a gun. "You're taking away their maleness," he said in reference to gun owners who oppose gun control, adding "they will do anything to stop this." Buckley called the NRA "a very effective lobby" that has run contrary to public opinion in favor of gun control, as demonstrates in polls showing that over 70 per cent of citizens advocate some form...