Word: inform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brody, who is in his first year as chairman, said that the catalogue's editors failed to inform him that the deadline for including names in the book falls well before the last day on which departments can formally hire instructors. As a result he did not forward the names of nine professors and instructors in time...
Some faculty members may perceive the statement as stiffening requirements. Dean Rosovsky, to whom professors currently report, has said that very few professors have formally sought him out to inform him of conflicts of interest. Faculty discussion of the new statement could also rekindle debate on one of last year's hottest issues--the role the University should play in outside commercial endeavors. That issue arose after the University approached a professor of Biology about becoming a shareholder in a genetic research company with which he was involved. After all, as Martin notes, the idea of revising the conflicts...
...private debtors to the defunct Bank of Liberia. So far, says a foreign businessman, "not one cent" of the millions of dollars in cash that Pennue collected has been turned over to the central bank. On the same day that Doe met with Western diplomats and businessmen to inform them that shakedowns would stop, Pennue ordered his bodyguards to hold down the manager of the government-controlled radio station while the colonel flogged him with a belt. The man's crime: passing Pennue's car. which was stopped along Monrovia's main street. Doe finally jailed Pennue...
...only people who ran into trouble, in fact, were Agents Daley and Dennis. The Justice Department in 1974 indicted Informer Hall on a charge of possessing stolen Treasury bonds, and threatened to indict the IRS agents as co-conspirators-though they protested that they had only been asked by Hall to check the serial numbers on the bonds. The agents composed a memo pointing out that the IRS and the Department of Justice had failed to inform the Senate Watergate committee of their reports about Fitzsimmons' account of his alleged meeting with Nixon. If indicted, they threatened to summon...
...organs of the state-acting in the best interests of society really-can do that to a man. For Danny Ciello (Treat Williams) knows that in enforcing the law, he and his partners have also bent the law. They have supplied confiscated drugs in return for help from junkie informers. Some of the money they have found on arrested dealers has ended up in their pockets. Beyond that, Ciello -whose story is based on that of New York Detective Robert Leuci a decade ago-knows much, much more, mostly about who in law enforcement is on the take...