Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policemen explained to the students that they were going to conduct a search for a bomb, and gave them the option of leaving. About half of the hundred students present left...
...package of seminars held this Saturday at Science Center B will aim at teaching anyone who attends--but especially non-scientists--the ins and outs of recombinant DNA research. Cambridge City Councilwoman Saundra Graham, MIT biologist Alan Silverstone and Everett Mendelsohn, Harvard professor of the History of Science, will conduct workshops from 9 till 1 on DNA research and how it could affect society. The Biohazards Action Committee, a group that wants to go slow on recombinant DNA research, plans to have this first teach-in on the subject touch on all the relevant political and scientific questions...
...code of conduct accompanying the raises would severely curtail outside earned income, such as legal and directors' fees and honorariums for speeches. It would require complete financial disclosure of all income, gifts, debts and personal holdings. Strict conflict-of-interest standards would be applied. Restrictions would be placed on the kinds of jobs that people could take when leaving Government. The report urges abolition of "revolving-door arrangements through which company executives, Government regulators and contract negotiators pass freely, changing hats or uniforms as they go, doing damage to public respect for Government...
Congress appears to be receptive to the pay provisions, cool to the code of conduct. Says House Minority Leader John Rhodes: "I'm not pleased with the idea of members of Congress, who are in just two years at a time, having to give up all outside sources of income." A House reform task force is now drawing up a code of ethics similar to the commission recommendations. Whoever draws it up, a stricter set of ethics is certainly desirable. Even more urgently needed is a salary level that can attract and keep in Government people...
...Hartz, traveling co-host of the Today show. Which is why he allowed A.L. Blanton, mayor of Plains, Ga., to do a Samson number on Hartz's hair. Since the protean Blanton also works as a barber-and local air traffic controller-Hartz figured one way to conduct an interview with the mayor was under the clippers. When Hartz got back home to New York, his regular hair stylist flipped his lid, condemning the job as "lopsided" and pointing out "there was a big hunk of hair missing on the right side." Joked he: "What would have happened...