Word: files
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response was to devour all the information she could about the scandal. "I read all the newspapers and all the testimony and all the lawyers' briefs," she says. "I became a kind of walking computer. Even the lawyers would call me occasionally because I seemed to have everything on file." Only after the famous "smoking gun" tape, released just days before Nixon's resignation, did Sawyer become convinced that the end was inevitable. She was one of the stalwarts who rode on the plane that carried Nixon to San Clemente after his farewell speech. What explains her loyalty? She ponders...
...settlements initially offered to them -- and suggesting that they shouldn't consult a lawyer -- are anathema to the aviation bar. According to Gerald Sterns, a San Francisco lawyer who specializes in air- crash litigation, "These letters can be very dangerous for the victims if they decide later to file a lawsuit. The insurance company's concern is damage control. What they're doing is developing a rapport with the victims and duping them...
...income-housing rehabilitation project that Siegel wanted to develop in Essex, Md. Like any good reporter, Jacobson started asking questions. Why would the former Interior Secretary, now a Wyoming-based businessman and a professed enemy of Big Government, be involved in such a project? Jacobson started combing every public file on the 312-unit Kingsley Park development but could not turn up any references to Watt. Jacobson says Siegel flatly denied that Watt was involved. Since Jacobson could not confirm the story, she shelved...
...slight concession to community demands, University officials at the meeting indicated that they might file an amendment to Harvard's master plan to accommodate the purchase of the building...
Harvard has indicated that it may file an amendment to its master plan to accommodate the building purchase and administration officials have said they want to set up a mechanism with the community to avoid a repeat of this summer's dispute...