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...amount of money involved is not the major problem here," said Elizabeth Fay, executive director of the public interest group Common Cause. "The important thing is whether or not our elected officials are setting the example they should be. Cheating the system is cheating the taxpayers. It's wrong...
Puttnam's name was first broached for his new job at a lunch on June 10 between Fay Vincent, Columbia Pictures Industries' chairman, and Thomas Lewyn, Puttnam's lawyer. Vincent had known the British producer since Puttnam made the Turkish jail saga Midnight Express for Columbia in 1978. Ten days later, Vincent traveled to London to meet with the producer. After wavering a bit, Puttnam accepted Columbia's offer...
...ocean with magnetometers, devices that detect irregularities in the earth's magnetic field--anomalies caused by, among other things, iron cannons, armor or anchors. They used side-scan and sub-bottom sonar and even commissioned an aerial survey, but the search did not yield a verifiable Atocha remnant. Says Fay Feild, an engineer and consultant to Treasure Salvors, who designed a special magnetometer for Fisher: "With a magnetometer, even in a limited area, only one in 100 'hits' has anything to do with a wreck. With a side- scanner, it's one in a million...
When Time Inc. decided in early 1984 to attempt to combat rising illiteracy in America, recalls Toni Fay, director of corporate community relations, "Our ^ research indicated that there was a lack of high-interest materials. We thought we could motivate students to read through a careful use of TIME." Ester Connelly, who manages the Time Education Program in Yardley, Pa., was charged with devising a curriculum outline and one-day training course that would enable volunteers to teach reading and vocabulary through use of the magazine's advertisements, headlines and captions, as well as its articles...
...Kennedy II, and, in the order they spoke, State Representatives William Galvin (D-Brighton), Thomas Vallely (D-Back Bay) and Thomas Gallagher (D-Allston); Bachrach; James Roosevelt; James Spiegel; Carla Johnston; and former Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King. The Republicans taking part were Clark Abt and Mildred Fay Jefferson, a new entrant in the race...