Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then why did Dean Fitzsimmons resign from SAS four days after media reports pinpointed the company's existence and publicized the government probe? And in doing so transfer the business' legal address from Fitzsimmons' Weston, Mass. home to Reed...
...biggest banking scandal in years. Last week the disgrace claimed the two top officers of Italy's largest bank, the state-owned Banca Nazionale del Lavoro. Chairman Nerio Nesi, 64, and Director General Giacomo Pedde, 62, resigned after the bank's board heard the results of an initial probe into a scam in which the bank's Atlanta branch gave $2.6 billion worth of unauthorized export credits to Iraq to buy machinery and agricultural goods...
...possible sharing of information has become a focal point in recent weeks as the Justice Department continues to widen a probe into alleged price-fixing by universities in setting tuitions, student financial aid and faculty salaries...
Officials at all four schools said their respective institutions would cooperate with the probe, and all denied the allegations that they violated antitrust laws...
...crowds' hopes of rescue were doomed, however, for the British military effort during these first days consisted mainly of dropping propaganda leaflets on German military installations (among the cautious Britons' other preparations for war: killing all poisonous snakes in the London zoo). The French attempted only one feeble probe against Germany's ill- defended western frontier. And the Poles' own political and military leaders, perhaps considering discretion the better part of valor, were already abandoning Warsaw to its fate...