Word: doe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PRINCESS DIANA INTERVIEW (ABC) With a composed fragility, the Princess of Wales yanked the royal family into the age of public confession. Her disclosures--that her marriage was a shambles, that she had suffered from bulimia--weren't shocking. But her doe-eye candor was. Some found it calculated, but most viewers opened their hearts to the world's most famous victim...
...cleanup "milestones" set by the EPA and Colorado's Department of Health and Environment, only two dozen spelled out concrete action. The rest mostly involved producing one report after another, generating much paper but no progress. Scores of internal policy directives, set in place by the DOE itself, further impeded the effort. "The people who wrote these procedures had little idea of how things actually worked," says Silverman. "They were more worried about going to jail than about plutonium risks...
...Silverman's behavior is bizarre for a bureaucrat, the reaction of his bosses is even more surprising: they're going along with it. Regulators have met with the Rocky Flats management team to rewrite and simplify the cumbersome rules, and the DOE has approved Silverman's plan to further cut the facility's 4,878-person work force. Admits Assistant Energy Secretary Thomas Grumbly: "We have created a paperwork jungle over the past 50 years...
...Hazel O'Leary really behind the Energy Department's embarrassing decision to use an outside firm to size up journalists? The DOE secretary, who testified before two House subcommittees Friday, said she "knew little about the details of the system that was planned." O'Leary also insisted that the reports from Carma International, which was paid more than $43,000 in public money to rate press coverage of the Department, were not used to compile an "enemies list" or reward favorable coverage. At the same time, House staffers made public several internal memos that suggested DOE public relations staffers took...
...Janet Reno, "most of these leads have been pursued and exhausted." Investigators generally think that if any additional plotters do turn up, there will be only a few and they will prove to be mere "facilitators." In particular, some investigators have come to doubt that the far-famed John Doe No. 2 actually exists; others think that even if he does, he is only a minor figure in the plot...