Word: pardoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...royal pardon seemed to be Jordan's contribution to the reconciliation process, even though Hussein made it clear that fedayeen bands would not be free to operate within Jordanian borders...
...eight" of the accounting field. Some observers made much of the fact that three former officials of the firm (when it was called Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery) had been convicted of mail fraud and distribution of false financial statements in 1968 but had received a presidential pardon from Nixon in 1972. White House spokes men argued convincingly that the three men have had no connection with the firm for five years and that all Presidents sign long lists of pardons recommended by the Attorney General...
...track. The sleeping-car porters rap hard on the compartment doors to make sure all passengers are awake. A disc jockey, piped into the train from a Perth radio station, is playing his morning selection. "Now here's a good one," he says, and the song begins, "Pardon me, boy, is that the Indian-Pacific...
Selling for $3.95, the bracelets supposedly have an all-purpose message. "You can wear the bracelet until the man is either indicted, convicted, pardoned or paroled, depending on your point of view," says Louis Lerner, one of the three entrepreneurs. "What we're really hoping for is that on Jan. 19, 1977, Nixon gives them all a presidential pardon, so that all the wearers can take off their bracelets and throw them in one loud crash on the marble floors of America. Or they can send them back for recycling for the next scandal...
...with a single Icelandic escort and walked around chatting amiably with other strollers. The local press did not make much of his one bad gaffe. Speaking with reporters on the plane while flying from Washington to Iceland, Nixon had referred to the island nation as "you'll pardon the expression, a Godforsaken place...