Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exact wealth of Nelson Rockefeller has been a guarded family secret. Now, however, the extent of his assets will be disclosed to the Senate Rules Committee and the House Judiciary Committee as part of his confirmation as Vice President. In the meantime, the best estimates of Rockefeller's holdings confirm his status as the Croesus of American public officials...
According to a 40-count gambling indictment handed up in Manhattan last week, two bookies, Michael Astarita and Thomas Musto, conferred regularly last fall with Dr. Anthony Pisani about the "extent and exact nature of injuries" to several Giants players. On each of four weekends, after discussions with Pisani, the two gamblers, both of them reputed Mafia members, are said to have accepted bets in excess of $100,000 on pro games, including the Giants'. Pisani, who was granted immunity in exchange for his testimony, was not indicted. He resigned from the Giants last month after ten years...
...cameras half an hour later in the Oval Office. At Nixon's request, the crew of technicians was kept to a bare minimum; no aides, friends or family members were in the room to share his disgrace. There were no precedents at all in American history-and no exact precedents in world history, the resignation of West Germany's Chancellor Willy Brandt being perhaps the closest recent parallel-for the sort of speech that Nixon, a head of state departing under a cloud, was about to make...
...that easy to find the exact conversations that the prosecutors want. While the tape reels from the Oval Office have only one day's conversation or less on them, the reels from the President's hideaway in the E.O.B. may have as much as a week's conversation, depending on how frequently he secluded himself in that office. The recordings from the bugged phones in the Oval Office, the Lincoln Sitting Room and the E.O.B. may have as much as two or three weeks of conversation on them...
...thick murk of confusion, conjecture and reticence has obscured the full dimensions and exact nature of the Reno-La Salette financial disaster. According to the National Catholic Reporter, the progressive lay weekly that broke the story last week, the Reno diocese and the La Salette fathers both faced bankruptcy after losing as much as $15 million - the exact amount is not known - in a $25 million investment operation called the St. Joseph Trust Fund. Other investors, including an unidentified Canadian diocese and a Canadian women's religious order, may have lost another $6 million or more...