Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moreover, TIME has learned that Steve Bull, a presidential aide, has told Ervin committee investigators that he delivered eight or ten tapes of Watergate conversations to the President on June 4. Bull loaded the tapes onto at least five playback machines. He said that he carried the machines into the President's office in the Executive Office Building, set them up for the President and then left. According to Bull, Nixon kept the tapes for twelve hours, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and when Bull retrieved them all of the tapes had been fully unwound. The significance...
...Matz claimed was present during the transaction. "Such a thing is ridiculous," Jones said.) Prosecutors said that many payoffs delivered to Agnew were disguised as campaign contributions and were used to finance his political races over the years. One of the traditional devices was to sell tickets to a "bull roast" or some similar political festivity, since tickets costing less than $51 need not be reported. Green, Matz and Wolff have all been contributors to Agnew campaigns at one time or another, and Agnew has freely admitted that contractors are among those who have furthered his political fortunes...
...Joseph Patrick Kennedy III has already encountered a remarkable string of misfortunes. The adventurous oldest son of the late Robert F. Kennedy has been attacked by a roan antelope in Africa and knocked down by a bull calf in Spain; he has broken his leg while playing football and again while skiing; he has been skyjacked by Arab terrorists on an airliner to Southern Yemen. Last week young Joe had his worst mishap to date while visiting some friends on Nantucket (sister island to Martha's Vineyard, site of Uncle Ted's disastrous automobile accident in 1969, which...
...coins or gold-mining shares, or make similar hedges against recession. With recent jumps in the prices of precious metals-gold coins have doubled in value in the past year-many of their clients have indeed made handsome profits. But the gloomy prognosticators soft-pedal the buying opportunities in bull markets. At the very least, though, the scaremongers have done handsomely for themselves. Among them...
Business-school graduates of the class of 1973 are opening their first pay envelopes about now, and thanks to a bull market for Masters of Business Administration, the checks are plumper than ever. Graduates of such elite schools as Harvard, Stanford or Pennsylvania's Wharton start out at an annual average of close to $17,000, up $1,000 or more from last year. The number of companies actively recruiting has increased nearly 15% since 1972. At Harvard, 861 recruiters showed up to vie for 777 graduates. The school collected the students' resumes in a book and sold...