Word: directer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials, TIME has learned, now regard it as certain that Flood will be indicted. Says one Government investigator: "We have 175 possible cases." According to Elko, the mustachioed Congressman who represents blue-collar Wilkes-Barre was Congress's most successful "muscler," an official who used his considerable influence to direct federal contracts to people and companies that said "thank you" in cash. Other Congressmen and many friends of Flood's will probably be touched by the investigation, which is already becoming known as "Floodgate." The House ethics committee is expected this week to name a special counsel and staff...
...direct mail campaign and other recent promotional activities have pushed the circulation of the Harvard Medical School Health Letter from 19,000 in January 1977 to 130,000 today...
Once again, Haldeman claims no direct knowledge of who erased that 18/^ minutes from the tape, but he nonetheless accuses Nixon. "My own perception had always been that Nixon simply began to erase all of the Watergate material from the tapes when he started to worry that they may be exposed," Haldeman says. This was the first taped post-burglary conversation. Haldeman believes Nixon set out to censor it, but since he "was the least dexterous man I have ever known," he discovered that "it would take him ten years" to wipe out all the incriminating words. Indeed, court-appointed...
...children in college, a form of relief that has become increasingly popular on Capitol Hill with campus costs accelerating at dizzying rates-up 77% from 1967 to 1976- and voters appealing for help. With two different plans already under consideration by Congress, each offering aid in the form of direct tax credits, which Carter opposes, the President heeded Califano's counsel and jumped in last week with his own variant: a $1.5 billion Middle Income College Assistance...
Defending his own more limited remedy, Carter charged that the other programs would be excessively costly and un ocused. The Packwood - Moynihan proposal would cost the Treasury $4.7 billion a year and the Roth plan $1.9 billion v. Carter's $1.5 billion. Direct tax credits, the President added, would also "provide benefits to those who do not need them...