Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...efforts to crack down on insider trading, Fedders engineered an unprecedented agreement with Swiss authorities that made it harder for inside traders to hide behind Swiss banking secrecy laws. He also launched the probe that resulted in the indictment of a Wall Street Journal reporter for passing tips to investors before publishing them in his column. Fedders withdrew from that case after one of the targets of the investigation retained counsel from his old law firm. While some associates found Fedders overbearing, the consensus at the agency and on Wall Street was that he was a tough, thoroughgoing official...
...President, have been vague about whether and under what circumstances S.D.I. would be negotiable. In Geneva, Kampelman and his colleagues will deliver lectures on the virtues of the U.S. strategic concept. Karpov and his comrades will fulminate against the evils of Star Wars. At the same time, they will probe for some sign that space weapons might be negotiable after...
Officials a Labor Department probe concluded that by government definition these assistant editors were employed in a nonprofessional capacity and thus should have been paid by the hour rather than on a first rate basis, said HSA General Manager Hope B. Spruance...
...added that the only other incident requiring a government probe involved a misguided student who wrongly believed he was entitled to unemployment compensation after he graduated...
...possibility that the institution has been involved, perhaps unknowingly, in money laundering, the booming illegal business of covering up the origin of funds earned from drug trafficking and other crimes. Growing concern about the spread of money laundering prompted the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations to announce plans for a probe of the Boston institution, which is New England's largest banking company (assets: $21 billion). Rhode Island Democrat Fernand St Germain, chairman of the House Banking Committee, declared that the Boston episode shows the need for tighter controls over the financial industry...