Word: edward
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...federal grant money in fiscal 1975, 1976 and 1977, the Department of Health and Human Services concluded that Harvard did not keep adequate records of salary costs for specific federal programs, and that it routinely used money from one grant to cover cost overruns for another project. Says Edward Parigian, the HHS regional audit director: "These are violations of regulations and good business acumen. Universities shouldn't consider federal funds a giveaway. They should have good accountability...
Mobile Phones. Edward Bennett Williams, the famed Washington trial lawyer and owner of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team, spends an hour and a half a day making calls from his new automobile and carry-along phones. Says he: "It's a sensational improvement over the old mobile phone. When I heard about this, I went for it like a bear going for honey...
...authorities are only pursuing about 150 cuses, all selected because the individual turned himself in. In Mauchusetts, Edward Hasbrouck has been indicted and the federal district court will accept pre-trial motions in two weeks. U.S. Attorney William F. Weld says he is looking into others, but refuses to disclose how many, or to discuss their status...
...Boston Globe. And whether they have consciously sought it or not, the Globe newswriters have become as much a political force as any candidate or faction. They are often accused of being liberal Democrats in general, and unabashed Dukakis supporters in particular. On primary election night in 1978, when Edward J. King came from however to vanquish then-Gov. Dukakis, supporters chants of "We beat the Duke!" soon blurred into "We beat the Globe!" In this year's long gubernatorial campaign, the paper has the dubious and perhaps unprecedented distinction of drawing libel suits from contenders in each party...
...since 1980 and is now first in the nation at 15.9%, State G.O.P. Chairman Mel Larsen predicts, "I don't think it's going to have that big an impact here. The rest of the country is just catching up to us." But Yale University Political Scientist Edward Tufte suggests that the issue could cost Republicans as many as 40 congressional seats next month. Says he: "Local factors like personality are Important, but the economy is in a sense a local factor, especially when people are out of work...