Word: edward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bill opponents like State Senator Edward L. Burke, a committee member, milled it "a very poorly drafted place of legislation," adding that arguments of anti-vivisectionists were "very weak...
...conductor's incomprehensible explanation. "I'm afraid to get in that subway system even when I'm with my bodyguard," says Senator Alfonse D'Amato, a Long Islander. "Even my bodyguard is afraid." Although it was clearly an overstatement ("I think he should change his bodyguard," retorted Mayor Edward Koch), New Yorkers know what D'Amato means. Since the city's fiscal crisis and the cutbacks of the 1970s, the elderly subway system has been in decline. A report done by the Straphangers' Campaign, a consumer-advocacy group, showed that one out of five cars had bad lighting. Ridership...
...crime or on criminals. Ronald Reagan has led a conservative Administration that has championed efforts to limit the rights of criminal suspects and expand those of victims. Democrats Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro made the reduction of crime an element of their plea to return to "family values." Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, one of the most liberal members of the Senate, was a leading sponsor of the most sweeping federal anticrime measure in the past 16 years. Enacted last October, the revision of the criminal code permits pretrial detention of "dangerous" defendants, increases penalties for major drug offenses and eliminates...
When the Pentagon detected irregularities in its audit of General Electric's contract to replace the warheads on Minuteman missiles, it did not file a civil suit. Instead, in an unusual move, it referred the case to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution. Last week U.S. Attorney Edward Dennis Jr. announced that a federal grand jury in Philadelphia had returned an indictment against G.E. for allegedly defrauding the Air Force of more than $800,000. In a swift and stiff follow-up punch, the Pentagon declared that it was temporarily barring G.E. from any new military contracts. As if that...
...Navy was not eager to pay the $843 million extra charge, but General Dynamics threatened to halt production of the submarines if the Pentagon refused to absorb the overrun. Company documents reveal that Lewis told Assistant Navy Secretary Edward Hidalgo that "it might well become necessary to close down those operations at Electric Boat relating to the 688 program." Charges Veliotis: "General Dynamics was prepared to hold the nation's vital submarine program hostage in order to squeeze more money out of the Government...