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...punish what it forbade. Not until the 1920s was the first Cabinet-level official convicted of bribery (former Interior Secretary Albert Fall in the Teapot Dome scandal). By the time of Watergate, the anticorruption ethic was so extensive that a number of Nixon officials ended up in jail after hush money was offered to the burglars. Noonan even suggests that the campaign against corruption may now conflict with other standards. Of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, which made it a crime for companies to bribe officials abroad, Noonan remarks that "no such law had ever been framed...
Everything was quiet when she cleared her throat. In jeans, boots and braids, she resembled any other college student. But when she spoke, the packed Currier House's "fishbowl" and balcony went hush. When she finished reading her poem, "S M", she paused and asked the audience, "do you cry?" There was nervous laughter and nervous yesses. "It's so hard for you to say that...as my mother says, you'll cry soon enough. And the way things are looking you might as well get good practice...
...hush-hush shuttle mission pits the Pentagon against the press...
...someone in a hush-hush occupation, Karl Koecher never seemed very secretive about his work. He would tell acquaintances that he was a CIA employee. And indeed he was, from 1973 to 1977, in Washington and New York City. On a résumé that he assembled earlier this year when he ran for the management board of his ritzy Manhattan apartment building, Koecher described himself as "a consultant on national security matters." That was true too, after a fashion. According to federal authorities, Koecher did have one client, to whom he told everything he knew about U.S. national...
Reyers advertises heavily, spending about $130,000 a year on television, radio, newspapers and coupons. But its success is due mainly to its enormous inventory: 125,000 pairs of shoes, ranging from Hush Puppies and Thorn McAn to Bally and Anne Klein, and 376 styles of athletic shoes. The store stocks 150 patterns in men's size 13AA alone, and women's sizes run from 3 to 13 in eleven widths from AAAAA to EEE. Such selection, plus enthusiastic salespeople, generates intense customer loyalty. So far this year, Cecelia Veal has made three trips to Reyers from Akron...