Word: probe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...decision by a federal judge; he had ruled that Casey and other directors of Multiponics, a New Orleans agribusiness venture, had misled investors about the finances of the firm. With that, Goldwater swung into action, ordering an investigation of Casey's fitness for his job. Even before the probe began, Goldwater and two other Republican Senators, Ted Stevens of Alaska and William Roth of Delaware, called on Casey to quit...
...Reagan political crony who had appointed Hugel against strong opposition within the CIA, and with little if any White House support, was in trouble too. He was the focus of an investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is dominated by Republicans and headed by Senator Barry Goldwater. The probe also had the backing of Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker. All this was happening despite the insistence by a White House press spokesman that "the President has full confidence in Mr. Casey...
...part series concluding that, among other things, cocaine was partly responsible for the low quality of television programming inflicted upon Americans. Though the articles were understandably short on names and specifics, the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control somewhat hastily set up hearings in Hollywood to probe drug abuse. Even some of the entertainment world's most outspoken opponents of drugs, such as Cathy Lee Crosby and Edward Asner, refused to testify, calling the hearings a witch hunt...
...events took place that inspired Peter Hyams to make this outerspace thriller. On March 9, the NASA space probe Voyager I discovered an erupting volcano on Io, the innermost Galilean moon of Jupiter; and on May 25, 20th Century-Fox released the film Alien. Io gave Hyams his setting: a futuristic mining colony that looks like a gigantic Tinkertoy. Alien provided much of the rest: a crew of steel-spined, me-first mercenaries stalked by a mysterious killer. (In Alien it was a mutating monster; here it is a dangerous drug.) Mix them together with the plot from...
DIED. Jeannette Piccard, 86, pioneering balloonist who, along with her late husband Swiss Scientist Jean Piccard, became the first woman to probe the stratosphere in a balloon flight over Lake Erie in 1934, and who 40 years later became one of the first American women to be ordained an Episcopal priest; of cancer; in Minneapolis...