Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bosket has now filed a suit against his surrogate mother, charging cruel and unusual punishment at Woodbourne. He is also angry because the authorities have ignored an eight-page handwritten letter in which Bosket volunteered himself for study as a way to help prevent future Boskets. "It's all just theater to Willie, and we try not to give him a stage," says Thomas Coughlin III, New York's commissioner of correctional services...
...perplexing questions. Have post-Watergate reforms designed to shield the IRS from political abuse unintentionally allowed corruption to flourish by exempting the agency from proper oversight? And is the agency, headless since Commissioner Lawrence Gibbs resigned at the height of the tax season last March, using those reforms to prevent the subcommittee from delving into the wrongdoing...
...Congress amended the IRS code, making it a felony for the agency to provide or even discuss confidential tax-return information with most outsiders, including the FBI and the Justice Department, without a federal court order. The revised Section 6103 was designed to prevent Executive Branch officials from obtaining tax information on political enemies, Richard Nixon- style. But critics maintain that the reform has turned the IRS, which is possibly the Government's most feared civilian bureaucracy, into an agency that answers...
Gibbs, who declined to be interviewed for this report, proclaimed in a nationally televised news show before he left the IRS that he welcomed "a full, fair and complete airing." Since his departure, however, Acting Commissioner Michael Murphy, a career IRS bureaucrat, has been actively lobbying Congressmen to prevent any hearings. He believes that the IRS, which rarely hesitates to expose the peccadilloes of private taxpayers, would be hurt by the publicity. Last month Murphy turned up in Barnard's office to discuss whether the dispute could be ironed out in private, behind closed doors...
...feel personally sorrowful about black-white relations a lot of the time because black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war, to prevent other kinds of real conflagrations...