Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Sand gave the four holdouts until Aug. 10 to reverse their negative votes or face jail terms, Yonkers appealed the contempt finding to higher courts. Invited by the judge to remove the rebellious officials, New York Governor Mario Cuomo instead deferred to the state's Emergency Financial Control Board, an agency that oversees Yonkers' shaky finances. Cuomo further muddied the waters by observing that Yonkers officials might be able to persuade Judge Sand to modify his ruling. Grandstanding politicians in the Yonkers stalemate could find a guiding example of courageous leadership in Boston. Neighborhood resistance to the integration...
...federal grand jury indicted six men on criminal charges that they evaded taxes through dozens of fraudulent stock deals. The accused -- five top officers of Princeton/Newport, an investment partnership with offices in New Jersey and California, and a former trader for the Wall Street firm Drexel Burnham Lambert -- could face prison terms of up to 20 years each and fines totaling $19 million...
...Business Week leaks. Many brokerages have turned over their trading records to the New York Stock Exchange, which is conducting a computer analysis. Says one investigator: "There is nowhere to hide. We're going to catch anyone who profited by advance knowledge of the column." Such individuals could face criminal charges for wire and mail fraud...
...Gable anchoring one of Frank Capra's psychodrama parables of Americana and you get a hint of Jeff Bridges' performance in Tucker: The Man and His Dream. The roguish, can-do smile looks welded on. No boardroom backstabbing, no political malfeasance can wipe that salesman's grin off his face. It is the smile of a cockeyed optimist whose tragic flaw is that he refuses to believe anything can go wrong. And it is attached to a mind racing with ideas and a mouth that motors even faster. Bridges' Preston Tucker is a man in perpetual motion -- gesticulating, punching walls...
...hotel in Freeport, the Bahamas, to bang on Howard Hughes' window. "That is the closest anyone ever came ((to Hughes))," he claims proudly. Ace Tab Photog Jimmy Leggett, a wiry Scot, remembers a "scheme to drill a hole down into Hughes' coffin to get a picture of his face." Another plot, in the '60s, involved renting a submarine to surprise Jackie Kennedy and little Caroline yachting in the Mediterranean. Leggett admits with a wink, "Neither plan made it past the second glass of ale." Balfour once sent a reporter to find paradise. The intrepid investigator rang...