Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Powell asked Crawford to the White House that afternoon to meet with himself, Brzezinski, White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler and Jerrold Schecter, Brzezinski's press secretary, to get the facts. On Powell's summons, Post Style Section Editor Shelby Coffey arrived with a lawyer. The paper printed its retraction the next day. (Many of the characterizations in Quinn's series are true. Though known as an exemplary husband and father, Brzezinski is notoriously vain and flirtatious...
...Inquisition put Galileo on trial. But the Vatican called last week's meeting a mere "series of talks." Over coffee, a Dominican priest- theologian, Edward Schillebeeckx, 65, clad casually in a tweed sports jacket, sat answering respectful questions from three other theologians. In case of need, a theological counsel for the defense, Schillebeeckx's dean at Nijmegen University in The Netherlands, stood by in an adjacent room...
...Kennedy's problems may be that he has been surrounded by young Senate staffers, and he has lacked the shrewd counsel of a political veteran to help deal with the constant crises that come up during a hectic tour. To remedy that, Campaign Manager Stephen Smith last week dispatched John Reilly, 51, a lawyer and longtime Kennedy crony, to inspect operations on the road...
...fund may soon be swollen like a Christmas stocking with more cash. In the past 22 months, Paul Bloom, 40, the DOE's special counsel, has brought 150 enforcement actions totaling $7.2 billion in claims against 35 large oil companies for violating the complex, controversial federal price regulations. So far the DOE has won consent decree settlements amounting to $660 million from Kerr-McGee, Cities Service, Phillips, Gulf, Mobil and other companies. They agreed to settle by posting lower future price increases than the maximum allowed under Government regulations. Getty also chose this method for the remaining $50 million...
...Office of Special Counsel for Compliance, which has more than 400 auditors and 200 lawyers, was set up nearly two years ago to uncover profiteering. Because past efforts nailed few alleged offenders, the DOE turned for advice to a sister agency, the Securities and Exchange Commission. Bloom had the power to negotiate settlements, and he modeled them after the SEC's consent decrees. Companies that sign them with the DOE neither admit nor deny wrongdoing, but agree to stop what they have been doing and make a financial settlement...