Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though North returned safely from Tehran, the Button account remained open. Last fall, Hakim claims, he attempted to get some of the money to North's wife Betsy. Hakim's financial adviser, Willard Zucker, met with "Mrs. Belly Button" in Philadelphia and told her that an anonymous admirer of her husband's "wishes to help out with the university and educational expenses of the children." Zucker and Betsy North discussed an abortive plan to funnel money to the Norths through their relatives...
...preaches regularly from the pulpit of a Philadelphia church, but his most noted sermon is a code of conduct for Americans doing business in South Africa. A decade ago, the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a Baptist clergyman and civil rights leader, formulated a set of antiapartheid principles that came to be adopted by a majority of U.S. companies operating in that troubled land. Last week Sullivan called a press conference in Washington to announce a dramatic change in strategy. Because the so-called Sullivan Principles had failed to bring an end to apartheid, he declared, he had concluded that all American...
...thinking that the racism of a sheriff in Jefferson Parish does not outshine the bigotry of some Boston schools or of the men and women of Elmwood, Philadelphia. And being here in Boston has taught me of the ease with which people dismiss the racism in their midst by focusing on more glaring evils elsewhere...
Sullivan, a Philadelphia minister, drew widespread attention on Wednesday when he issued a long-anticipated call for institutional stockholders to divest all of their holdings. In the past, Sullivan had supported partial divestment...
...many patients formerly walked off with standard-issue phones (average price: $75), the theft of a disposable phone is less costly. Says Kendall Gallagher, a Mini-Phone vice president: "A patient confronted with a hospital bill might feel he's entitled to everything in the room, including the phone." Philadelphia's Mercy Catholic Medical Center estimates that it saves between $50,000 and $75,000 a year by installing the discardable devices. Indeed, they have proved so popular that throwaway phones will soon be sold in the hospital's gift shop -- at 30% over cost...