Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Investigators contacting Pierce's old Manhattan law firm were told he resigned in 1981. They would check his business address, but he doesn't have one. The searchers believe he lives in New York. Exactly where? Nobody knows. When he is in Washington, he stays with a friend. Who? Nobody knows. Why not subpoena Pierce? Well, says a subcommittee staffer, "you have to have an address." The HUD probe may drag on for months. So could the search for Silent...
...month he had no direct role in funding decisions in the Section 8 or any other program. Since then, however, the Wall Street Journal has reported that Pierce intervened on behalf of several associates, including a former law partner. Subcommittee members have told Pierce, who has moved back to Manhattan to resume his law and business dealings, that they want to question him again...
...Young, the FDA commissioner. But AIDS has increased that tension. Those with the disease have protested for years that the FDA's traditional methods of testing an experimental drug's safety and effectiveness were too slow. "People have lost faith in the system," says Richard Dunne, executive director of Manhattan's Gay Men's Health Crisis...
Time's management was called upon to explain its strategy last Friday, when more than 1,000 shareholders jammed into the grand ballroom of Manhattan's New York Hilton & Towers for the company's annual meeting. The stockholders, many of them Time employees, were less confrontational in their questioning than had been expected and indeed several times warmly applauded the Time management. Even so, several criticized the Time-Warner deal because shareholders were not asked to approve...
...trip to a Manhattan basement uncovered a true trove. There were six boxes filled with 1,500 unassembled frames and the tools to put them together. A deal was struck, and the boxes were shipped to L.A. Inside one of the treasure boxes was an itemized bill signed by the eyeglasses distributor whose half- century-old inventory they had just bought: Oliver Peoples...