Word: information
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first brainstorm along these lines was an offer to pay $25,000 to any secretary whose boss is imprisoned as a result of her information. Now PBC has sent out 24,000 letters to executives' wives, suggesting that they ask their husbands if they or any colleagues have been involved in criminal activity. To 1,000 wives of the corporate creme de la creme, tape cassettes have also been mailed. These tapes carry the voice of PBC Founder Jeremy Rifkin, 32, a Harvard-educated anti-establishmentarian. "Would your husband inform the authorities if he were aware of illegal conduct...
...American fiction might have been able to go somewhere with this plot, but Agnew simply does not know where to start. Nothing happens for the first two hundred pages. Agnew introduces his characters with an almost Proustian verve for description, but his idea of expressing meaningful detail is to inform the reader every time a character shaves, or brushes his teeth. Then, when the action finally takes place--most of it in the final fifty pages--Agnew makes up for lost time and all hell breaks loose. Old friends become antagonists overnight; radical extremists blackmail high government officials...
...committee would be able to pass on the foreign intelligence budget (which is now considered so vital a secret that the figure-estimated at about $10 billion -was eliminated from the report at the request of the CIA). What is more, the President would be compelled by law to inform the committee before any significant undercover operation was undertaken-thereby giving the members a chance to object to, although not veto the enterprise. Political assassinations would be forbidden by statute, as they now are by Ford's decree. In addition, the committee would ban by law any attempt...
...people who will push you hard just because they like it, and guards who won't admire you, and food you can't eat, and unless you do eat it, they'll put you in solitary." Hellman remained obdurate. She would not even let her lawyers inform the committee about past attacks on her work by the Communist press: "In my thin morality, it is plainly not cricket to clear yourself by jumping on people who are themselves in trouble...
...glad if a student does this and tells us," Riesman said, "but if a student does this and does not inform us ahead of time, I'm in favor of severe action--expulsion...