Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frederick Joseph, Drexel Burnham's chief executive, testified last week in defense of his firm. He insisted that Drexel Burnham did not give employee partnerships preferential treatment over the firm's clients. The House panel, however, plans to continue its probe...
...preliminary army probe determined that 15-year-old Tirza Porat died from a bullet fired by Aldubi's M-16 rifle. Settlers claim she was shot either by an Arab who took the rifle or by an Arab with another weapon. Israeli officers have said they believe Aldubi accidentally fired the fatal shot in panic...
...surfaced, Burns and Weld became more concerned. At senior staff meetings, they confronted Meese directly, citing newspaper stories and asking, "What about this, Ed? And this?" Meese still shrugged the reports off as "partisan attacks." Both officials had expected McKay to wind up his investigations quickly, but as the probe broadened instead, they decided that someone had to do something. Said a White House source: "They had endured the situation as long as they could, but there appeared to be no end in sight...
Wallach and Chinn have taken their Fifth Amendment protection against self- incrimination rather than cooperate with McKay in the Meese probe. For his part, Meese contends he knew nothing about the details of the Chinn investments...
...Leventritt Competition with Pinchas Zukerman in 1967, and has since established herself as a major artist on the strength of her burnished tone and fiery passagework. Chung is a performer of great interpretative range and insight who can light up the night with a blazing Tchaikovsky concerto, probe the intimate, sorrowing mysteries of Alban Berg's twelve-tone essay in the form, or tackle Sir Edward Elgar's king-and-country Violin Concerto with equal aplomb. She also plays in a chamber trio with her sister Myung-Wha, a cellist, and her brother Myung-Whun, a pianist now making...