Word: finleyism
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...Lawrence Finley, a Harvard police sergeant said yesterday he will show a series of pictures of about 20 "awareness points" in the Yard, such as unlocked entry doors and of a ten-speed bicycle which "we could have stolen in ten seconds...
...Finley said he has given similar presentations to security committees in several Houses, adding that the procedures he outlines are "ongoing crime prevention, not reactions to crisis situations...
...dropped two of its directors who were also Stevens directors, following a threat by many unions to withdraw more than $1 billion in pension and other funds they had on deposit at the institution. Six months later the New York Life Insurance Co. decided to remove Stevens Chairman James Finley from its board, after the A.C.T.W.U. threatened to run its own candidates for the board seats held by Finley and New York Life Chairman R. Manning Brown Jr. When the agreement between the union and Stevens was signed, Rogers was preparing assaults on three other companies with Stevens connections: Sperry...
...indeed they are written for the true believer, for they admit of no possible party flaw. If there are national problems, those are the fault of the other party, which is castigated at length. As Finley Peter Dunne's fictional commentator Mr. Dooley noted of a practiced platform writer, "Whin he can denounce an 'deplore no longer, he views with alarm an' declares with indignation...
...shot artist, deft and softspoken, and an actor's director as well. Arkin comes closer than ever before to breaking through the reserve that sometimes straitjackets his unquestionable comic technique. Judy Graubart is winning as his realistic girlfriend. The guys at the lab- Austin Pendleton, William Finley, Wallace Shawn, Max Wright and Jayant-manage to satirize every imaginable form of intellectual hubris. Their cause is a worthy one, and so is their director's debut...