Word: filed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Molehill File by Michael Kenyan (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; 192 pages; $7.95). There's no time for tea in this sardonic unraveling of Establishmentarian rottenness. The sleuth is doughty Detective-Inspector Henry Peckover, a passable published poet who can no more aspirate his aitches than preserve his skull from duggery. Relegated by Scotland Yard to a dead-end fraud investigation, he links the murder of a May fair tart to a web of political, financial and sexual hanky-panky that encompasses a titled M.P., a police chief superintendent who turns drag queen by night, Middlesex pols and proles, bird hunters...
Litigation will continue, perhaps at " faster pace. "The Supreme Court has not stopped something," says former U.S. Solicitor General Robert Bork, who now teaches law at Yale. "It has started something." Probably more white males will be tempted to file suit against affirmative-action programs on the grounds that they are really hidden quota systems...
Fund officials in Dallas stonewall when asked for details, but federal law requires them to file public financial summaries with the Internal Revenue Service. (The B.G.E.A. does not file, strangely enough, because it contends that it is a church rather than an interdenominational charity.) Graham told two reporters about the fund after it started in 1970, but neither he nor Wilson mentioned it when the Observer inquired about finances...
Union leaders complain that far more is being asked of wage earners than of anyone else. One contentious point is Carter's request that top company executives restrict their salary increases to 5% as a symbolic gesture for rank-and-file workers to follow. Complains United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser: "A 5% limit for people like General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy, who makes just short of $1 million a year, is no great concession to fighting inflation...
...Last day to change a non-credit or audit course to credit, or to change from one credit course to a new credit course. Last day to add a Pass/Fail course, or to change from graded to Pass/Fail or from Pass/Fail to graded status. Last day to register and file final study card for credit program, with late...