Word: knightings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's no doubt that Wall Street is ratcheting pressure on editors. Maxwell E.P. King, editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, also stepped down last week after his own bruising battles with bottom-liners at the Knight-Ridder chain. In Los Angeles, editor Parks says he's not worried. "Look, the walls are not going to come tumbling down," he says. "This is not Jericho. I am absolutely confident of our ability to work out this new partnership with the business side--and not only our ability, but of our need to do it." The crunch, after...
...final portion of Harrington's book arose from candid conversation between doctors and divinity professors, neurologists and national health program directors, causes the reader to cling to every word of the last 40 pages. Some dialogue is amusing--Professor Spiro of Yale speaks of "feeling like a knight, very macho" when treating acute pain--and other comments are slightly disturbing: Professor Fields of California asserts that "part of what we do as physicians is to scare people" to add to placebo effectiveness. Anne Harrington herself contributes to the discussion of the placebo and each discipline's interpretation of its origin...
...eventually reached $33 million, money parceled out over three years over the objection of some government scientists. But the favorable treatment bestowed on the firm did not end there. Well-publicized plant visits by Gore and the department's environmental cleanup czar, Thomas Grumbly, sent its stock sharply higher. Knight helped land a $460,000 contract for the company to demonstrate its toxic waste neutralizing technology at a government laboratory, congressional investigators say. And Haney was a frequent guest at the White House and the Vice President's mansion. He, his firm and its officers raised or contributed...
...Energy department, Knight appears to have had an open door to Grumbly, who had worked for Gore in his congressional days. Records show extensive contacts between Knight, Haney and Grumbly...
...Knight had similar success for another Energy Department contractor, Lockheed Martin, which understands the political byways of Washington ? and the campus connection. In 1995 and 1996, while the company was receiving extensions in its $40 million-a-year fee to manage the Oak Ridge, Tenn. research facility, it donated $50,000 to the Nancy Gore Hunger chair...