Word: founds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their superiors that they complained publicly. A former auditor of the old Federal Energy Administration, Dale Kuehn, went public to describe how his memos suggesting that cases should be "prosecuted with dispatch" were habitually ignored. A DOE investigator, Joe McNeff, went to the subcommittee in June; he said he found in Houston "$1 billion worth of fraud, four auditors, no secretary and no support...
Power struggles are nothing new at Ford Motor Co., but the one that climaxed last week was a stunner. After weeks of futile maneuvering to save his job, Lee lacocca, 53, the harddriving, cigar-chomping president of the world's fourth largest manufacturing company, found himself quite bluntly sacked by his equally tough-minded boss, Chairman Henry Ford II. It was the culmination of months of behind-the-scenes quarreling between two of the auto industry's most respected-and often feared-executives. The end came for lacocca following a day of stormy meetings of the ten-member...
...partner, Jerome Robbins. Rumors flew that Baryshnikov would dance in with his new company in New York during June. It was probably a good idea to begin in the summer season at Saratoga Springs, for if there is any respite from the demands of superstardom, it can be found in this quiet, informal arts center. The performing area is a pavilion that seats 5,100 (many more people can see the action from some distance on the lawn). Saratogans take pride in their July visitors. Ask any shopkeeper, and he will tell you that the dancers and their fans...
While Astronomer James Christy was examining photographic plates of Pluto last June-taken with the U.S. Naval Observatory's 155-cm (61-in.) reflecting telescope at Flagstaff, Ariz.-he noticed an elongation in Pluto's image. Checking back on photographs made in 1965 and 1970, Christy found similar stretching, always in a north-south direction relative to the earth. After further measurements, Christy and his colleague, Dr. Robert Harrington, concluded that what they were seeing was actually a moon hi a 19,300-km (12,000-mile-high) orbit around Pluto. The great distance from the earth...
...similar survey of contemporary writers would turn up many of the master's titles: An Outcast of the Islands, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and his greatest story, Heart of Darkness. His ominous Slavic intensity and his understated English produced a prose style that generations have found intoxicating. Countless youths acquired their first sense of literary power in such passages as "When an opportunity offered at last to meet my predecessor, the grass growing through his ribs was tall enough to hide his bones...