Word: payoff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Quick Payoff. While many ethical and legal problems remain before embryo transfers become possible in humans, repetition of the Texas experiment could provide some quick payoffs in primate research. In studies of high blood pressure (hypertension), for example, a female baboon with a genetic tendency toward hypertension could be used to provide researchers with many more animals with the same condition. She could be mated once a month, and her fertilized egg removed each time for implantation in a foster mother. The foster mothers would then give birth to infants with a predisposition to hypertension...
Bribery at Home? When the wave of slush-fund and payoff scandals began to break, he also developed the idea of consent agreements. His bright young staff-average age is under 30-would collect evidence of wrongdoing and confront the companies with it. Then the corporations would continue the probe under SEC supervision, using untainted directors, lawyers and accountants to do the work. In the Gulf Oil case, the guilty company spent $3.5 million on its investigation...
...wake of the Lockheed and Gulf Oil scandals, there has been a growing outcry in Washington for a new law that would prohibit U.S. corporations from engaging in bribery and political payoffs abroad. In the Senate, Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire has introduced a bill that would make it a crime, under U.S. law, for American companies to engage in such activities in foreign countries whose own laws forbid political payoff and bribery. Last week the Ford Administration presented the outlines of the antibribery bill that it intends to present to Congress soon...
While only the most spectacular cases, such as the Lockheed payoff accusations, make headlines abroad, Italians are regularly treated to other stories of political chicanery, like the recent discovery of the names of several lawyers and merchants on the rolls of the Naples sanitation department, which paid them salaries though they never so much as touched a broom...
That leaves Cojak, Inca Roca, Amano, and Bidson for those who like to think big, as in big payoff. More unusual things have happened...