Word: deal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simple life portrayed by Estes turns out to have been an elaborate front. Last week federal prosecutors disclosed in a Fort Worth courtroom that as early as 1974, Estes was back wheeling and dealing. One deal involved conning a leasing operation of Borg-Warner Corp. of Chicago and other firms into paying for some nonexistent steam cleaners, used in washing down oilfield equipment. Estes then arranged for Wallace Oil Co. to pretend to lease some of the phantom cleaners. When the Chicago firm sent a representative to see its equipment, he was, according to a Justice Department official, "given...
...deal may be complicated by devastating raids...
This is the atmosphere of insult and intimidation in which the negotiations on our demands were conducted--an atmosphere that Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, characterized as one of "mutual respect." We must state very frankly that we have no respect for people who deal with students in this way in private while in public making pious statements about their commitment to reasoned discussion and rational discourse. And in this we include not only Ira Jackson and Archie Epps, but also Derek Bok, the man who has the responsibility for setting the moral tone for the Harvard...
...terms to have been. The University had already been ripping down our posters, they had betrayed their promise to let us into the ceremony, and now they had announced a non-existent agreement. The protesters were understandably angry and frustrated (an increasingly common feeling among those who must deal with the administration), they had no assurance that the audience would stay after the ceremony to hear our speaker, no assurance that some last-minute change in the University's conception of this imaginary agreement would not prevent our speaker from being heard--and when Bok stepped up to deliver...
...surface, the plan seems to have trivial implications. Litvak admits that there's a great deal of ego involved--a team's pride in being a part of the top college football division. Yet he calls the restructuring plan "stupid and offensive," explaining it implies that a commitment to college football means you have a big stadium and high attendance. "The plan does not ask for a measurement of commitment, it asks, does the market accept your product?" he explains...