Word: daniels
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...searched for support wherever it may find it, enlisting even a former Turner employee, Broadcaster Daniel Schorr, who three months ago left his job as CNN senior correspondent in a contract dispute. For years Schorr had been a CBS newsman. In its petition, CBS cites an article by Schorr that appeared in the June 2 Los Angeles Times. In it Schorr charged that Turner "has encouraged companies to sponsor features associated with their products." He noted, too, that "business leaders are subjects of flattering interviews and their companies sometimes solicited afterward for commercials." While Schorr was surprised to be quoted...
...scorn was clear in Ronald Reagan's voice. "The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug," he said of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, "did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. He made his choice long ago." The President was speaking last week at a fund raiser in Oklahoma City, but his real audience was members of Congress who were once again considering the resumption of aid to the contra rebels struggling against Ortega's Sandinista regime...
...Daniel Barenboim, 42, on what he has learned in ten years of conducting the Orchestra of Paris: "When they want to be difficult, the French can seem impossible. But when they decide to get something done, there's no one better...
...many cases, individual culprits are given immunity from prosecution in exchange for testimony, and the corporations get off with small fines. The $2 million in penalties assessed against General Electric, for example, amounts to less than eight hours' worth of profits for the company. Daniel Fischel, director of the economics program at the University of Chicago law school, points out that the gains a company reaps from violating the law sometimes exceed the penalties, making it the most economically efficient thing...
Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 raised a similar point in his response to students who staged a full-day sit-in in April at the headquarters of Harvard's Governing Boards. "It is ironic," he wrote, "to have students in at the office of the governing Boards during the very week when President Bok is trying to shape national policy about student financial aid, South Africa and other important issues...