Word: probe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investigation of Pentagon procurement fraud: "I can't believe our Government, the Congress and Executive, lets a system like this endure." In fact, the judge was so disgusted that he handed out astonishingly light sentences to the first two defendants convicted by a jury as a result of the probe (twelve other people have pleaded guilty). Teledyne Electronics executive George Kaub could have received 40 years in prison. His co-worker Eugene Sullivan could have got 20 years. Instead they will serve six and three months, respectively, in a halfway house. Prosecutor Henry Hudson declined to comment...
...detector will allow us to look at the bursts in much greater detail, so that we will be able to probe deeper [into] this phenomenon," Jones said. "We don't really understand how nature contrives to give us these neutrons, and that is the puzzle we have to unravel...
...press conference: Gunner's Mate Third Class Kendall Truitt, 21, who had been sacking powder in a lower-level magazine when the blast took 47 lives. A bespectacled sailor with a mild manner, Truitt calmly recounted his escape from the burning turret. Last week the Navy's inconclusive probe of the explosion took a bizarre twist, and Truitt was shoved front and center again -- but hardly as a hero. Investigators said Truitt might have set off the explosion to kill a shipmate and collect $100,000 in life insurance. At the same time, they said it was also possible that...
...week's end the Capitol was in a hushed frenzy. Wright's legal team was desperately organizing his case. Democrats were gathering in clots to probe one another's views, phoning for news, sometimes arguing angrily over how much loyalty they owed the Speaker. The general feeling was that the disenchantment with Wright may have reached critical mass midweek, and it would take a miracle to cool it down. Miracles have been in short supply lately, particularly for Democrats...
...yearlong probe has unearthed evidence of alleged wrongdoing by high-level Internal Revenue Service officials in the past five years and an attempted cover-up by the agency's image-conscious leaders. -- The cable-television industry faces fiercer competition. -- Computer genius Seymour Cray breaks away from the company he founded...