Word: lying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never take business calls during the Super Bowl," says Dershowitz, the famed constitutional defense attorney and Harvard law professor. "I'm not going to let business interfere...I know where my priorities lie...
...finest screen-writers, and confirms the staying power of Altman, who has always been one of our most solid directors. Shepard's collaboration with Wim Wenders on Paris, Texas, and now his work with Altman, hints at a possible Shepard film canon. Coppola doing Buried Child? Kurosawa's A Lie of the Mind? Kubrick's Curse of the Starving Class? A Lucasfilm version of The Tooth of Crime? The mind reels...
When Shultz flew home to Washington last week to report to the President, the first item on his agenda had little to do with his travels. The Secretary firmly told the President in private that he opposed a national security directive, signed by Reagan on Nov. 1, authorizing lie-detector tests for thousands of Government employees and private contractors who handle sensitive information. Questioned by reporters, Shultz said that he considers polygraph testing ineffective, that it often implicates innocent people and that trained spies can easily avoid detection. Asked whether he would ever take such a test, the Secretary replied...
...usually circumspect Shultz for taking his defiance public and noted that Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has agreed to take a polygraph test. But the White House hastened to head off a confrontation, explaining that the President's directive allows department heads to decide which of their employees must undergo lie-detector tests, and insisting that the plan was aimed at curbing espionage, not--as some critics suspect--unauthorized leaks to the press. Reagan told reporters at week's end that Shultz had been mollified and that the Secretary would not be asked to take a lie-detector test himself. Shultz...
That story and many more lie between the covers of a new book, The Birth of the National Park Service: the Founding Years, 1913-33, by Albright as told to Robert Cahn (Howe Brothers). Mather became the first director of the Park Service, and Albright followed him as the two struggled to consolidate their authority over the natural wonders of the U.S. In a big old touring car with Warren Harding in Yellowstone in 1923, Albright told the President he had sealed off the road and "it will be 20 miles before we see another soul." Harding joyously pulled...