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Word: forli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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> Routine purchases of large amounts of liquor for executives who would drop by his office and give him written lists of what they wanted by the case lot. Anderson contends that he often had to bring in laborers to deliver the whisky to the homes of executives or to put...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Executive Swag | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

> The purchase of many gift certificates worth up to $400 each at clothing stores and meat markets. Anderson says that he handed them out like poker chips. He filled numerous delivery orders for the families and friends of company officials.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Executive Swag | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

> Scores of payments for clothing ranging from $200 to $800 for executives' secretaries. Sometimes he would give the checks to the bosses and sometimes directly to the women.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Executive Swag | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Anderson also asserts that he covered the bills for expensive junkets taken by managers, their wives and women friends. He claims to have provided cash for gambling trips to Las Vegas, including $2,500 that was supposed to be handed to a very high executive through an intermediary. His "training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Executive Swag | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

His counterparts in the company's four other U.S. regions, Anderson alleges, were handing out similar goodies. Says he: "This has been going on for so long that it became a way of life." Amoco declines to comment "because of the investigation by the SEC," but a spokesman calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Executive Swag | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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