Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Department members disagree about how Skocpol's arrival this summer will affect the department, with some maintaining that she will be a major asset to Harvard sociology. Others argue that her arrival will be divisive and increase the conflict in the embattled department...
...took the onslaught with outward calm and an occasional smile. Iacocca was fired, he suggested, chiefly because he got too big for his britches. "The statue is more than Lee Iacocca," he said. Hodel's justification was, at best, a bit thin. He insisted that there was a "potential conflict of interest" between Iacocca's role as chairman of the governmental advisory commission and his leadership of the private Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, the group that has been spectacularly successful in raising some $233 million for the restoration projects. Those who raised the money, Hodel suggested, should...
Hodel said that he never focused on the conflict of interest problem when things were going well; as late as last October he reappointed Iacocca as chairman of the commission. The conflict possibility hit him, he says, only after Iacocca indirectly raised the issue on Jan. 29. Palmer Wald, the foundation's counsel, had sent telegrams to two men who sat on both the commission and the foundation board. Wald asked them to leave one of the groups because "the chairman requests there be no crossover of commission and foundation board membership." Both chose to leave the foundation...
...coins. Iacocca was praised lavishly by Baker for "a classic example of American volunteerism." Only two hours later, Iacocca was in Hodel's office for a 75- minute session during which the Secretary implored him to leave his post gracefully. Iacocca said he would do so only if the conflict of interest allegation were clearly spelled out. Hodel finally picked up a letter and read aloud its operative paragraph: "I have determined that this matter is not subject to debate . . . I must inform you with regret that your chairmanship of, and membership on, the commission are terminated." He signed...
...Ford Motor Co. in 1978 with no more explanation than "Sometimes you just don't like somebody." At his Detroit press conference last week, Iacocca first quipped, "I've got to stop getting fired like this." The Chrysler boss then insisted flatly that there had been no conflict between his two Statue of Liberty jobs. He said that he had first taken the commission post in 1982 at the urging of then Secretary of Interior William Clark precisely "to clear up public confusion and establish accountability" between the two groups...