Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subcommittee's chairman, Georgia Democrat Doug Barnard Jr., says the IRS has become so consumed with preserving its reputation that it is using Section 6103's confidentiality provisions to thwart congressional scrutiny of alleged misconduct. Citing Section 6103, IRS officials have refused to turn over confidential files about the Jordache affair and other cases. "We are handicapped from doing the oversight job that Congress has determined we should do," says Barnard, a conservative former banker...
...Administration, Cavazos was an amiable former president of Texas Tech University whose reputation for consensus building contrasted sharply with the contentious style of his predecessor, William Bennett. But the honeymoon is over. Reflecting the view of a growing number of critics, Andrew Griffin, executive officer of the Georgia Association of Educators, dismisses Cavazos as "all talk, no action...
...Georgia, one of 42 states where prisons are under court order to reduce overcrowding, correctional officials resort to a kind of risky triage, releasing less dangerous inmates to make room for muggers, rapists and other violent criminals. Sometimes their judgment goes awry. Ronnie Fisher was sprung from Fulton County Jail last month while awaiting trial on car-theft and drug charges. Barely an hour after he was set free, police caught him apparently trying to rob a man on an Atlanta street. Georgia still plans to release 3,000 inmates by July...
REPORTER-RESEARCHERS: Rosemary Byrnes, Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, Jeanne-Marie North (Department Heads); Audrey Ball, Bernard Baumohl, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Katherine Mihok, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Nancy Newman, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); David Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John E. Gallagher, Lois Gilman...
REPORTER-RESEARCHERS: Rosemary Byrnes, Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, Jeanne-Marie North (Department Heads); Audrey Ball, Bernard Baumohl, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Katherine Mihok, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Nancy Newman, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); David Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John E. Gallagher, Lois Gilman...