Word: ferretted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...experience of a decade in dealing with the postal problem: "It is wishful thinking to believe that we can continue the kind of service we have enjoyed and which has been remarkably beneficial to the country without providing substantial funds from the general treasury. To be sure we must ferret out waste, and we cannot tolerate slipshod management. But money will still be needed over and above that generated by postal rates...
What is needed now is a bipartisan congressional committee headed by individuals whose honesty is unquestioned, like Senators Hugh Scott and Hubert Humphrey, to ferret out those in Congress whose campaigns have received illegal corporate financing...
...staunch Republican and initially a Nixon supporter, Mollenhoff was persuaded to assume the newly-created post by the president's expressed desire to ferret out the vestiges of past scandals and the seeds of future mismanagement. "I knew he was no angel," Mollenhoff said in an interview with the Crimson this week, "but I did think he was a salvageable political figure...
...rescue plan. For all the unpopular actions he was forced to take?cutting spending, raising taxes?he won respect by making hard choices with an even temper. But his record was somewhat blemished at year's end when he abruptly fired Maurice Nadjari, the special prosecutor appointed to ferret out corruption in the criminal justice system (see THE NATION...
...also used its agents to ferret out information about the organizations' financing and to photograph their leaders and determine their attitudes and home addresses. When the Washington police department organized a similar undercover operation, the CIA stopped its own project as unnecessary. Still the commission concluded that the CIA operation "went far beyond steps necessary to protect the agency's own facilities, personnel and operations, and therefore exceeded the CIA'S statutory authority...