Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Popkin has argued since September that he is not legally required to disclose his academic sources to a Boston grand jury investigating the leak of the Pentagon Papers to the press. A major point in his argument was a claim of academic privilege similar to Earl Caldwell's claim of journalistic privilege which a New York court ruling supported early this year...
...asked an official who is up for re-election in November, "when an opponent has something unsavory in his background?" Ailes and Wade quickly agreed that above all else, "you do not break it yourself. Have the campaign committee do it, or have a friendly newsman do it, or leak it to the press. But be sure your facts are correct." Ailes continued: "This is a high-risk thing, and I would bring it up only if it bears on your opponent's capacity to hold the office. If a candidate is running as a protector of the environment...
...journey seemingly without end. The camp is filled to four times its capacity; when no more people could possibly be crammed into the 30 dormitory-style buildings, the government set up 150 army tents. The canvas tents have no plumbing, and the floors are bare earth. The tents also leak. Now that the monsoon rains have come, inhabitants have all they can do to keep...
Many institutions object that the privacy of their files, which they claim is necessary in order to select and promote faculty, would be jeopardized. "A great many institutions fear that HEW personnel may leak material," Sheldon E. Steinbach, an attorney for the American Council on Education, said last week. "When hiring, schools need a high degree of confidence in order to evaluate what are often very fine points in deciding who to hire." He went on to explain that universities also saw this as a dangerous precedent: "A couple of years ago, it may have been the subversive control board...
...more and more employees tell tales outside the office or factory, more and more firms are bound to learn that it pays to listen. Edward A. Gregory, a General Motors body-shop inspector, went to Ralph Nader after managers had refused to acknowledge his warnings about a carbon monoxide leak in Chevrolet bodies and had transferred him to other tasks. When Nader and Gregory publicized the defect, G.M. in 1969 had to recall 3,000,000 cars. G.M. not only gave Gregory a $10,000 savings bond for the suggestion that helped repair the defect, but he was reinstated...