Word: informing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bodies of fallen guards were tagged with their names, and their families were quickly notified. The bodies of convicts were labeled "PI, P2, P3." As late as four days after the gunfire, relatives of some convicts were still refused information on whether their sons or husbands were alive or dead. Those who were notified received the news in terse telegrams. One read: REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT YOUR HUSBAND RAYMOND RIVERA NUMBER 29533 HAS DECEASED. THE BODY REPOSES AT THIS INSTITUTION...
Sometimes that office has acted without bothering to inform the Corporation. Last year, while Bennett was out of the country, the Corporation halfheartedly discussed the Gulf Angola Project resolutions, which opposed Gulf Oil's involvement in Angola and other Portuguese colonies in Africa. The debate was limited, Hugh Calkins '43 Fellow of the Corporation, said, because the Fellows "weren't sure what Mr. Bennett had already done." Agreeing, John Morton Blum '43, Fellow of the Corporation, said afterwards, "It was a ship that passed in the night...
Personality Conflict. A cop who was not on the take was expected not to inform on fellow officers. The normal procedure would be for him to tell his superior officer that he had a "personality conflict" with his partner; the pair would then be reassigned while the shakedowns continued uninterrupted. The honest cop who did turn in another member of the force might be putting his own life in danger-and no action was likely to be taken against the offender. In an interim report issued last July, the Knapp Commission said that the "rookie who comes into the department...
...those most likely to bear children: 80,000 people between the ages of 18 and 43. To reach and test this high-risk population, Kaback and Zeiger sought the support of local rabbis and leaders of Jewish organizations. Few refused to provide it. Rabbis took to their pulpits to inform their congregations about the disease and to urge them to participate in the experiment. Jewish women's organizations not only distributed thousands of leaflets but provided volunteers to conduct the actual screenings. "This," said Kaback, "was a program by the community for the community...
Lord, Day & Lord may well have felt that the Times was about to break the laws relating to classified documents, and may also have been concerned about a possible threat to national security. In the end the firm decided not to inform the Government. The legal question has yet to be resolved; it is still unclear whether the Times actually violated any law (TIME, July...