Word: donee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probe intensified in 1987, when Saranow's office dropped charges against Jeff Hamilton only days after that firm withdrew a lawsuit it had filed against Guess. Meanwhile, the IRS rejected Saranow's request to take a leave of absence and work for Guess, as his deputy, Howard Emirhanian, had done a year earlier. Saranow was cleared of charges of wrongdoing...
...some of the same higher-ups who had rushed to Santella's aid. Top IRS and Treasury Department officials dismissed the whistle-blowers' cries of harassment. But in 1987 an independent IRS "grievance examiner" concluded, in a report obtained by TIME, that their complaints were justified. Nothing was done, however, until Barnard's subcommittee began asking questions in early 1988. The whistle-blowers were reinstated in their former positions, and Santella was forced to resign...
...author of an acclaimed biography of a brilliant pianist, Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations (Random House). When he is not buried in his own writing, Friedrich sometimes dons the mantle of literary agent. Impressed by the reporting that Denise Worrell, then TIME's show-business correspondent, had done on celebrities from Michael Jackson to George Lucas, he offered to spend his lunch hours showing Worrell's work to publishers. A flattered if skeptical Worrell said, "Great!" then forgot about it. One day she came home to find a message: "I think I just sold your book. Call me." Worrell...
...Secretary comes across as a man with no clear-cut agenda who prefers speechmaking to policymaking. "Cavazos hit the ground strolling," says Democratic Congressman Pat Williams of Montana, chairman of the House post- secondary education subcommittee. "He believes the job can get done with Rose Garden ceremonies." An example came earlier this month when Cavazos unveiled a report showing that the performance of U.S. students remained "stagnant." The Secretary said the lack of progress "scared" him, but all he proposed to do was urge Governors and school board presidents to push for higher graduation rates. "He keeps telling us that...
...shortage, has gone nowhere on Capitol Hill, say detractors, because Cavazos has failed to rally public support. "People were critical of Bennett's bully-pulpit role," says Ramon Cortines, superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District. "But at least he kept education on the agenda. Cavazos hasn't done that...