Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Goldman, Sachs, and Richard Wigton and Timothy Tabor, both formerly of Kidder, Peabody. But when he did so, he noted that he had discovered a much broader conspiracy and needed time to investigate it. He made it clear that Freeman, Wigton and Tabor were part of the widening probe...
...long voyage toward Jupiter, the spacecraft is scheduled to pass within 620 miles of the asteroids Gaspra and Ida, the first such close encounter in the annals of interplanetary travel. Then, five months before reaching Jupiter near the end of 1995, Galileo is to release a 730-lb. probe that will become the first man-made object to penetrate the gaseous atmosphere of the planet. Its instruments are expected to transmit data on the Jovian atmosphere for about 75 minutes before being silenced by the planet's intense atmospheric pressure. Galileo is next scheduled to settle into a two-year...
Douglas Groothuis, a research associate at a Christian think tank called Probe Center Northwest and author of Unmasking the New Age, raises a similar objection. "Once you've deified yourself," he says, "which is what the New Age is all about, there is no higher moral absolute. It's a recipe for ethical anarchy. I see it as a counterfeit religious claim. It's both messianic and millennial...
Halpern said that, should the FBI's probe reveal evidence of a wiretap, it would probably have been placed by those who installed the tap found on Tribe's phone...
...watershed: in June a federal appeals court ordered the FCC to reconsider a 1984 ruling that freed broadcasters from any limits on the amount of commercial time permitted on children's programming. In response, the FCC last month launched a broad inquiry into children's TV. The probe will examine not only whether limits on advertising time ought to be reimposed but also whether restrictions should be placed on the more than 25 shows currently airing that feature toys as their main characters. The inquiry seems to reflect a growing consensus that the FCC's free-market approach...