Word: leake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increase minority ownership of service stations and do more business with minority-owned companies. Texaco's record so far does not inspire great faith--and some questions still need to be answered. Why did it take more than two years of legal action by six aggrieved black employees, the leak of an embarrassing tape recording and the threat of a boycott to get Texaco to live up to the fine-sounding promises in its glossy equal-opportunity brochures? Why was it so hard for black Texaco employees to be taken seriously when they complained about being called "porch monkeys...
...JUAN, Puerto Rico: A massive explosion ripped the side off a six-story building in San Juan Thursday morning, killing at least 19 and injuring 82. Investigators believe a natural gas leak may be responsible, but are looking into other possible causes. The blast, believed to have originated in a shoe store, carved a 50-foot-wide hole out of the side of the building which is located in a residential and shopping district. "There were just parts of bodies lying in the street, torsos, bones, cars blasted against the building," Police Chief Pedro Toledo said. Owners of the shoe...
...precarious. Many of the President's top aides (especially deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes, who was running the campaign) were gunning for Morris and trying to block his every move. Morris had convened the meeting in a private home, not an office; he didn't want anything to leak...
...block it. After that, Perot would have to be crazy to entertain Dole's proposal that he drop out of the race, which may be why Dole gave it a whirl. It played out badly for Dole when he sent a mere campaign functionary and a leak allowed Perot to garner more press attention than he had since he started. What a dang fool idea. The weird and goofy billionaire even got to call Dole weird and goofy. Like a possum calling a poodle ugly...
...Times' own reporter made clear. Jewell's mysterious absence from his post the night of the bombing, the odd statements he had made to friends in the preceding days and his rudimentary bomb training warranted attention. Jewell was a valid suspect, though his name should not have been leaked to the press so quickly. But without the media's subsequent attack, Jewell's reputation would not have been so permanently scarred. If they had been as skeptical of the FBI probe in July as they are now in late October, we might have known of Richard Jewell's innocence much...