Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambridge Building Department is in the process of inspecting all Harvard buildings. Inspectors issue a certificate of occupancy for each lecture hall stating how many people may be in that room at any one time, the local inspector of Harvard buildings said yesterday. Any more than that number in the room constitutes a violation of the state building code...
...exchange for what he describes as a promise to raise $2 million for him from European banks. By the end of 1973 Barry had received neither his loan nor the return of his original deposit; he then alerted Stoessinger and went to the Canadian authorities. Later, a U.S. postal inspector showed up at Stoessinger's U.N. office to question him about the activities of his friend Anne Lamont...
...wake of the tragedy, Savino was charged with second-degree murder; ROTC headquarters assigned an inspector-general to investigate the incident; St. John's suspended the fraternity pending the outcome of a university inquiry. Even before their full-scale investigations began, both the ROTC and St. John's disputed the police version that the fatal stabbing stemmed from hazing. One ROTC officer suggested that the Pershing Rifles were simply conducting unauthorized training maneuvers. That theory raised the question of why only the pledges played the roles of P.O.W.s. As for St. John's, its spokesman noted that...
...back to Trinidad. After deplaning, investigators found, the pair placed a call to Orlando Bosch in Caracas. On their arrest, the two claimed to be employees of a Caracas detective agency headed by Luis Posada Carriles, former head of the operations arm of the Venezuelan secret police. Known as "Inspector Vasilio," Posada had been trained by the CIA in antiguerrilla warfare and demolitions...
...FRANCE IS A COUNTRY of 50 million citizens, 20 million informers," confides a police inspector to the father of a young man being hunted for murder. The inspector (Jean Rochefort) doesn't realize it, but he's just hit upon the motive for the puzzling case he is trying to solve. Bernard Descombes, disaffected son of a Lyons clockmaker, has inexplicably killed a right-wing factory informer. His father, Michel (Philippe Noiret), is shaken by the news, but his beefy face betrays hurt and bewilderment rather than outrage. The glib explanations offered by the press and the police...