Word: felix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explosions. Especially worrying are Dinkins' close ties to powerful labor unions, some of which may clamor for pay increases just as the city grapples with a projected $1.3 billion budget deficit. Even some of Dinkins' backers have qualms about his ability to hold the unions in check. Says financier Felix Rohatyn, head of Dinkins' informal team of economic advisers: "He is so innately decent that he is really not used to having to disappoint people. And yet, in this job, he'll have...
...example, a leak to ABC News undermined the summer espionage investigation of former Austrian ambassador Felix Bloch. Television audiences could watch investigators following an entourage of the press following Bloch...
...creations, of course, are created equal. ABC's World News Tonight last July aired a dramatization of alleged spy Felix Bloch passing a briefcase to a Soviet agent. The scene, visually enhanced to look like the real thing but inadvertently not labeled a simulation, was a mistake because it was misleading: it made an event that is alleged to have taken place appear to be a recorded fact. ABC apologized for not identifying the scene properly, and network newscasts have since steered clear of simulations...
...fact, several biographical attempts--conducted by then-Harvard Law Professor Felix Frankfurter, Mark DeWolfe Howe, one of Holmes' legal secretaries, and Grant Gilmore, a professor of law at Yale--have been made since Holmes' death in 1935. But until Sheldon Novick's brilliant and illuminating examination of Holmes' life was released, no one had succeeded in mapping the life of the Olympian jurist...
...Felix Bloch it was "just another day," but a meal with him last week at Washington's posh Jockey Club took place under the watchful gaze of FBI agents two tables away, while a posse of reporters and TV cameramen waited outside. Two months have passed since the State Department accused Bloch of contacts with a Soviet agent, setting off a circus of public surveillance but no formal charges. Yet as Bloch sipped a vodka tonic and spoke angrily of the "F Bureau of Incompetents," he seemed little changed from the career foreign-service officer I have known for more...