Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials insist the program is vital to maintain public confidence in the welfare system's integrity. Promises HEW Secretary Joseph Califano: "We'll do this with delicacy and care," severely limiting access to names of individuals on welfare. HEW Deputy Inspector General Charles Ruff, a former Watergate special prosecutor, acknowledges that search of personnel files can constitute a breach of individual privacy. But, asks Ruff, "is it an unreasonable invasion of privacy? We say that it is not." HEW plans to expand Match to include all federal employees and to help states start their own mini-Match. Under pressure from...
...worked on a railroad crew in Billings for three summers. Wielding a sledge hammer from dusk to dawn, he packed on extra muscle for battling under the boards for rebounds. Irion's father, who got him the job, worked for the Milwaukee Railroad Company before becoming a government railway inspector. Most of Irion's co-workers were illegal aliens from Mexico known as "wetbacks" because they "swim" the Rio Grande to get to Montana...
Everyone wanted to help the new owners of the Mirage bar, a sleazy little tavern on Chicago's Near North Side. For just $10, the fire inspector was willing to ignore the exposed electrical wiring. For $50, the plumbing inspector "fixed" the leaky pipes, and for $100, the ventilation inspector overlooked $2,000 worth of necessary duct work. Jukebox and pinball purveyors not only offered kickbacks but showed the new management how to skim off profits...
Though face lifting the Mirage with a few Marimekko prints and some hanging plants, the new owners purposely left, as the Sun-Times put it, "more code violations than barstools." But when the building inspector showed up, he spent eight minutes looking around, slipped a proffered $10 bill into his inspection papers and exclaimed, "Beautiful day!" Such self-over-public interest, the Sun-Times found, proved to be "the rule rather than the exception...
Bricks will finally arrive this morning for the long-delayed South House dining hall, Thomas F. Duffy, resident inspector in the Construction Management Division, said yesterday...