Word: ran
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...week later, Harvard's largest union, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), agreed to a three-year deal just a month after the previous contract ran out. In 1992, HUCTW had worked for more than six months without a contract, and a number of bellicose demonstrations punctuated the negotiations...
Beginning in 1962, CIA officers began crossing the names of captured commandos off the pay rosters and telling their families they were dead; SOG officers continued the practice. "I think it's terrible, I really do," says George Gaspard, who as a Green Beret major in Vietnam ran a related SOG program code named Oplan-34B. "As an agent handler, that would be appalling to me to write somebody off the books that...
...that it has used successfully to fend off past suits by agents who claimed to have been cheated. In that case, a Civil War spy was denied back pay because the court ruled it had no jurisdiction to enforce secret contracts for espionage. Retired Major General John Singlaub, who ran the SOG program from 1966 to 1968, gives another defense. He insists that the South Vietnamese government, not the U.S., decided which commandos should be taken off the lists. "I don't think there is a legal or moral justification for saying we should accept responsibility for them," Singlaub says...
Manning suggested that Symington ran for office because he was going broke. A novel promissory note signed in 1992 between Symington and Phoenix lender Jerome Hirsch drastically scaled down the money owed if Symington were to be President when the loan came due. The indictment's count of attempted extortion charges that in trying to soften repayment terms on the $10 million union loan, Symington as Governor threatened to cancel a lucrative Arizona State University lease...
Their relationship was of the can't-live-with-can't-live-without variety. But in the end he was not well rewarded. A communist, he ran afoul of the House Un-American Activities Committee and was indicted for refusing to testify. Lily, as he called her, was then a rich writer, but, lest her career be jeopardized, she refused to make his bail, departing, instead, for London and Paris. Why? Reveling in success, and desperate to write the script for an Alexander Korda movie of War and Peace, she was afraid of being branded a leftist...