Word: headedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The court's ruling is unlikely to cause serious problems for the Iran- contra probe headed by Lawrence E. Walsh or for Independent Counsel James McKay's prosecution of White House Aide Lyn Nofziger. Last year both prosecutors accepted backup appointments from the Justice Department. Prosecutor Morrison refused similar protection...
Giant corporations today are seldom headed by someone whose name is on the building, since hardly anybody has a moniker like Exxon, Primerica or Unisys. But at Ford, Detroit's fastest moving automaker, the fourth generation of a family dynasty is moving up. Last week the company elevated two young...
In many schools these realities blend into a panoply of horrors for teachers and administrators. Odette Dunn Harris, principal of William Penn High School in Philadelphia, talks of confiscating crack bags from student pushers in a neighborhood torn by gang wars and racial strife. When she first arrived at the...
Enter stock-index futures. These are speculative instruments, traded mostly in the pits of the Chicago commodity exchanges, that allow investors to bet on the direction the stock market is headed without having to buy the stocks themselves. Cheaper and easier to trade than traditional securities, stock- index futures seemed...
In the aftermath of Black Monday, more than a dozen investigative bodies have been probing those issues. Last Friday, in a case of remarkably appropriate timing, the most prominent of these groups -- the Presidential Commission headed by Investment Banker Nicholas Brady -- released its eagerly awaited report just after the market...