Word: informant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what Canso owed Catawba in royalties on the oil It would have produced if It had not sold its rights. The two directors reported that Catawba was entitled to $3,196,000, a tidy sum that ended up going to the Buckley family. Canso, claimed the SEC, failed to inform its own shareholders that one of the "independent" directors was William Buckley's brother-in-law and the other an administrator of Buckley trusts. A group of angry Canso shareholders in 1980 seized control of Canso in a proxy fight. Unmentioned in the SEC report was the fact that...
...joke. The simple non-hero is named George Spelvin (Jeff Brooks), a theatrical pseudonym for an actor playing a secondary role in a play. Spelvin has unaccountably wandered into stage company that he has never kept. The time is the present, but the other actors arbitrarily inform him that he is Edwin Booth's understudy in Hamlet and must go on tonight since "Eddie" has been injured in a car crash...
Here, courtesy of a UPI photographer, is Sen. Howard H. Baker (R-Tenn.), seated behind a floral arrangement resembling an AWACs plane, telephoning President Reagan to inform him of the outcome of last Wednesday's Senate vote; here is the Saudi newspaper Al-Jazira saying that Reagan belongs "in the tent of history" as one of the greatest American leaders "in recorded history"; here, courtesy of an enterprising AP reporter, is a quote from a man-on-the-street in Jidda: "Allah is my witness, the timing of the AWACs victory over Israeli lobbyists is replete with proofs the Almighty...
...council members said this week they expect professors to inform the committee of any dubious outside activities and predicted that Faculty members would comply with the body's recommendations...
...explained that "the purpose of the trial was not for making millions of dollars; it was to inform the many women who have been wronged by the medical profession nationwide...