Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conference, to be held in Washington, D.C. later this month, is being sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, and will "probe the views of the academic community and determine the level of their interest in an exchange," Ann Keatley, a White House science analyst, said yesterday...
...details, the audit was really a full-scale investigation, and it was highly unusual. It ranged far beyond the expense accounts of some Ford managers, cost some $1.5 million in company money and was personally launched by Henry Ford. Most important, it centered on an exhaustive and wide-ranging probe of Iacocca's business and private life...
...investigation began in August of 1975 and was headed by Theodore Souris, a former Michigan Supreme Court justice who is now a senior partner in the prestigious Detroit law firm of Bodman, Longley, Bogle and Armstrong. The financial aspects of the probe were directed by Norman A. Bolz, partner in the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand. Before the probe ended, 500 interviews had been conducted, and 50 Ford executives, among many others, had been questioned, Iacocca learned of the dimensions of the probe only from friends and business associates who had been grilled...
Initially, the probe focused on a large gathering of Ford dealers in Las Vegas. Private detectives were hired to check hotels, interview people who put on the entertainment for the dealers and ask questions of Las Vegas dancers and showgirls...
Monolithic Memories Corp. has a standing order for wafer sorters and probe-card repair technicians; meanwhile, the company is turning down orders for lack of workers. Synerteck needs ion implanters, who manipulate control panels to change the electrical properties of silicon. Fairchild Camera and Hewlett-Packard both have hundreds of positions available that cut across every level of skill. Avantek has an eye out for janitors interested in profit sharing...