Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bell's strategy of prosecuting only high-level officials kicked up another storm: four of the Justice Department attorneys involved in the investigation resigned in protest. Said Stephen Horn, one of the four: "There were a whole lot of agents stonewalling us. We could not investigate. Everybody knew...
...memos from Mark Felt-dubbed "one-liners" by investigators-giving Edward Miller explicit orders for break-ins and other illegal activities. The cabinet, say FBI sources, was tucked away in a corner of a little-used public room of the building and only came to light when a low-level employee suggested that it was an eyesore and should be thrown out. But it was opened first-and lo, the much-sought-after evidence was inside. Justice Department officials find the FBI's story bizarre to the point of incredibility-one calls it a "fairy tale." The investigators believe...
More important, Healey also raised the thresholds of taxable income, liberating some 360,000 families at the poverty level from taxes altogether and softening the bite on low and middle income citizens-though only slightly. The average British family man, who earns $7,410 a year and gives up fully 20% of that in taxes (compared with 14% for the median U.S. taxpayer), can look forward to keeping an additional $3.50 of his weekly pay; that is about enough for one extra beer a day at the local...
...contendere to the charge, he instructed the corporation to donate that amount to charities in New Haven, Conn., where Olin's Winchester Group is situated. "Reparations to the people of the community," he called it, stating, "The court believes that additional steps must be applied on the local level for re-establishing the local community's confidence and respect for one of its leading resident corporations...
Carter is expected to stress his pay-freeze suggestion when, in a week or so, he begins meeting on a fairly regular basis with business leaders at the White House. One result of any restraints on the top executives' income is that raises for lower-level managers would be pinched to preserve the traditional pay gap between echelons. Further, there is some question about the effectiveness of a freeze. A worker making $10,000 or $15,000 will not be overcome with a need for sacrifice upon hearing that an executive earning $400,000 is forgoing a raise...