Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With so much action afoot, the momentum behind new regulation seemed inexorable. Said Democratic Congressman Edward Markey of Massachusetts, chairman of the House banking probe: "I don't see how some restrictions can be avoided." Some of the areas likely to draw the most attention in coming weeks...
More serious is a state attorney general's probe of a previously undisclosed $350,000 loan to the Mecham campaign from a local developer, and questions about whether the loan influenced two Mecham appointments. While the Governor denies any wrongdoing, the legislature has hired a special counsel to investigate, and Mecham has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury this week...
BOSTON--A computer dating service that Supreme Court nominee Douglas Ginsburg helped run in the 1960s prompted complaints from dozens of people and a U.S. Postal Service probe before filing for bankruptcy in 1967, according to a published report...
...Postal Service probe of the Cambridge dating service, in which Ginsburg served as vice president, was suspended after company leaders moved to New York and disappeared, according to an investigator's memo...
...Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the French Institute for Research and Development of the Sea (IFREMER) found it broken into two pieces in the North Atlantic, about 350 miles southeast of Newfoundland, in 12,500 ft. of water. The following year, Woods Hole Marine Geologist Robert Ballard returned to probe inside the rusting hull and take photographs. But Ballard's crew left the ship and its artifacts undisturbed and urged others to do the same as a memorial to those who had died in the tragedy...