Word: counseling
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While most blacks stop short of opposing affirmative action outright, an influential few suggest that the concept needs rethinking. Outright quotas, the flash point of white opposition, are increasingly rejected as counterproductive because of how whites administer them. Says Larry Thompson, deputy general counsel of Wall Street's giant Depository Trust Co.: "Most of us who have benefited from or participated in minority recruiting would be against numerical goals and quotas because all they lead to is taking the first 10 dark faces that walk through the door instead of taking people who are qualified...
Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh then faced a difficult choice. He could either prosecute North all over again or let the matter drop. Walsh chose to write North off and concentrate on prosecuting Clair George, the CIA's former chief of covert operations, who was indicted three weeks ago for lying or obstruction during a series of investigations into the Iran-contra affair. Pronouncing himself "totally exonerated," North declared, "I've had my last hearing...
...have always charged a very nominal fund to cover printing costs for the Study Strategy publications," said Anne L. Couch, Assistant director of the Bureau of Study Counsel...
Behind the panel's skepticism are records showing that Clifford and Altman had profited hugely from their role as legal counsel to B.C.C.I. and several of its subsidiaries. As chairman and president of First American, they also received millions of dollars in B.C.C.I. loans to buy bank stock, on which they made $10 million in profit. The committee documents further note that Clifford and Altman may have lied to U.S. authorities about their knowledge of B.C.C.I's purchase of First American...
Michael Weiner, assistant general counsel of the union, said he had spoken to Nixon and his agent Joe Sroba earlier in the day. Weiner said a decision on filing a grievance would probably be made within 24 hours...