Word: general
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Self-Made Millionaire Connally, who as Treasury Secretary led the fight to bail out ailing Lockheed, makes no apologies for his ardent support of milk producers, large oil companies or Big Business in general. "Business creates jobs, and business needs help," he says, ci ing the declining productivity
...finally passed, the law compels the Attorney General to begin a preliminary investigation whenever he "receives specific information" that a high federal official (the President, Cabinet Secretaries, senior White House staffers, the director of the CIA" and others) "has committed a violation of any federal criminal...
...only exception is for "a petty offense," punishable by less than six months in jail. Simple possession of cocaine can draw a one-year sentence. The Attorney General must -not may-ask a panel of three federal judges to appoint a special prosecutor within 90 days unless the preliminary investigation determines the charges to be so flimsy that they do not warrant a deeper probe...
...than their predecessors, who came with the first wave of Indochinese refugees after South Viet Nam fell. While earlier refugees often brought some money with them, most of the latest immigrants have bartered their cash for their lives and must begin penniless. According to a report by the General Accounting Office, the newcomers are generally less educated and less likely to speak English. The GAO found that "some refugees, particularly some Hmong Laotians, cannot read or write in their own languages and are virtually unexposed to Western culture." They must be taught, it continued, to do such elementary things...
...died, his legs nearly blown off, almost immediately. Two Belfast doctors on holiday hastily set up a makeshift aid station on the wharf, using old doors for stretchers, broken broomsticks for splints and ripped-up sheets to bind up wounds until ambulances arrived to rush the victims to Sligo General Hospital. Both Mountbatten's grandson Nicholas and the Maxwell youth had been killed in the blast. After a nightlong struggle to save her life, the Dowager Lady Brabourne died the next morning...