Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rested largely on two government audits of Harvard in the late 1970's, which revealed numerous improprieties such as research costs charged to the wrong grant, and professors arbitrarily shifting staff and funds among several projects. These practices apparently were common at all research institutions before HHS's crackdown began in 1977; and throughout the two years of negotiations. Harvard's Financial Vice President Thomas O'Brien has said academic research requires more flexible accounting than federal auditors realize...
...campaign is said to have been directly inspired by the need to protect Deng, physically and politically. A rumor has it that an attack upon Deng's motorcade occurred in August near the seaside resort of Beidaihe. Though he was not harmed, the incident apparently prompted the crackdown...
...ongoing FBI investigation at Cornell is one of 15, all involving a break into the Virginia-based GTE Telemail system. FBI spokesman James E. Mull said this week that the computer confiscation "was not part of a major crackdown," but merely an investigation requested by the communications service...
Last week's crackdown was the most dramatic to date. Phone taps and electronic "sting" operations were used to trap the suspects. To prevent them from warning their friends, the raids were carefully coordinated. Indeed, news of the FBI strike was quickly flashed across the country through messages posted on computer bulletin boards, and some youngsters reportedly rushed to erase discs and burn files. Though no charges have been filed yet, the Government, by going after the microkids in a style more commonly used for archcriminals, risked turning the youngsters into instant heroes. Nevertheless, while such tamperings...
...main source of reading material was the clandestine book trade in banned books that went on during the crackdown on foreign influence...