Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nearly four months after the spill, there is no proof that Hazelwood was drunk when his ship ran aground. In fact, his crewmates claim he was not. A test given about ten hours after the grounding found that his blood-alcohol level was a little more than half the 0.1% drunk-driving limit set by the state of Alaska and 50% higher than the 0.04% limit set by the Coast Guard for seamen operating a moving ship. Some toxicologists have suggested that Hazelwood may have had a severely high 0.22% blood-alcohol level when the ship struck the reef...
...think are two notable examples of excellence and exclusivity. Correspondents Richard Behar and Scott Brown take a penetrating second look at the Exxon Valdez disaster. And in a special five-page section, Washington correspondent David Aikman talks with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the first major interview the Soviet writer has given to any U.S. news organization since...
While Kemp treated Pierce gently, he scoffed at the claims of some prominent Republicans that the huge fees they received from developers for their influence in obtaining HUD contracts had not hurt taxpayers. The department, he testified, had given developers "a reason to hire a consultant" and then provided "the money to pay the consultant's fees." Moreover, he said, private brokers who handled house sales for HUD and then failed to turn the money over to the Government were not "Robin Hood-type heroes . . . robbing the rich. They are stealing from the taxpayer and depriving low- and moderate- income...
...obligated under Delaware law to seek the maximum immediate return to shareholders by auctioning the company to the highest bidder. Paramount's argument that Time's directors were selling the company to Warner rested partly on the fact that the exchange ratio of the proposed stock swap would have given Warner stockholders 62% of the shares of the combined company. In Paramount's view, that situation amounted to a transfer of corporate control...
...cannot remain a leading force in technology, industry and science unless it is in the forefront of space exploration. Throughout its history, America has been a nation of discoverers and achievers. If it fails to take the next major step in space, it will have given up an essential part of its national character...