Word: hamilton
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Ethics in Government Act. The act, which included provision for special prosecutors, was created to prevent another Watergate cover-up by a politically tainted Justice Department. It led to long, sensationalized and fruitless investigations of alleged cocaine use by two of Carter's White House aides, Hamilton Jordan and Tim Kraft. Under the act, the Attorney General must ask a special court unit to name a prosecutor whenever there is "specific information" lodged against any of some 240 top officials, whether or not it meets the legal standard of "probable cause" to believe a crime has been committed. Attorney...
...afloat, and even in a time of serious unemployment (10.3% of the work force are jobless), there are surprisingly few complaints that the country is not getting its money's worth. Almost 90% of polled Britons want to retain the monarchy, and recently, when Labor's William Hamilton made a solitary exit from Parliament after another of his frequent excoriations of the extravagant royals, Conservative M.P. Geoffrey Finsberg scoffed, "Those who share Mr. Hamilton's view will doubtless have left the chamber with him." What Hamilton wants is a wedding-or, in his phrase, "jamboree"-financed...
...York, Reporter-Researcher Robert Grieves met with Japanese businessmen and Japan scholars. Grieves, who studied Asian history at Hamilton College and Columbia University before coming to TIME in 1979, was impressed by the businessmen's polite and meticulous ways. Says Grieves: "When I talked to a Japanese executive, he usually had an assistant there to handle all the details." The cover story was edited by Senior Editor George Taber and written by Associate Editor Christopher Byron. Says Byron: "The Japanese have built their entire culture on contradictions, but at the core is the notion that teamwork pays dividends...
...picture of her on the front page and three more inside. The Daily Express said flatly that "a crowd of 200 gasped" as Lady Di stepped out of her limo. Even the Times of London permitted itself a slight whimsicality. When Prince Charles ascends the throne, mused Columnist Alan Hamilton, "the royal couple will be known as the King and Di." Writer Jean Rook of the Daily Express complimented Diana "for putting on a bold, beautiful front, and for turning her cold, bare shoulders on the traditional, covered-up royal evening dress." Added Rook: "Her Gone With the Wind dress...
...First Amendment also requires a responsibility on the part of the news organization. Her attorneys are lining up supporting testimony from such witnesses as Kissinger, MCA Chairman Lew Wasserman (Kissinger's dinner partner at the Washington restaurant, reportedly the Rive Gauche) and Burnett's husband, Producer Joe Hamilton...