Word: raymonds
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...more than two years, Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan and White House aides have denied that they had any contacts with private investigators hired by Schiavone Construction Co. to spy on those who were investigating Donovan's alleged ties to organized crime. The Labor Secretary is a major stockholder and former vice president of the New Jersey firm. Allegations against Donovan have been investigated by a special prosecutor, a Senate committee and a Brooklyn grand jury, none of which accused him of having committed any crime. However, papers found in the files of the construction company's chief investigator...
When Frank Silbey, chief investigator for the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, was probing Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan's alleged links with mobsters two years ago, he knew that he was also being investigated: in an unorthodox move that infuriated Capitol Hill, the New Jersey-based Schiavone Construction Co., which is partly owned by Donovan, hired private detectives to find out who, according to Schiavone Lawyer Theodore Geiser, was "deliberately leaking information to the media...
Detroit Policeman Raymond Cruz of City Primeval (1980), for instance, is mistaken for a high school shop teacher by a girl he tries to pick up in a bar. Ernest Stickley Jr. is a dour Oklahoma hick who, in Swag (1976), conducts a doomed 100-day armed-robbery career. Resurfacing in Stick, seven years and a prison stretch later, he has scarcely improved; he worships Actor Warren Oates and thinks disco is dynamite. But, like all of Leonard's main men, deep down he is as incorrodable as a zinc bar and as heady as the stuff...
...investment and encourage new, advanced industries, the government has been extolling free enterprise. Mitterrand himself has formally endorsed "the right to make a fortune." Captains of industry like Schlumberger's Jean Riboud are featured heroically on the covers of traditionally leftist magazines. As Sociologist Crozier notes, former Premier Raymond Barre "tried to teach respect for business, but no one listened. Now that the Socialists are doing the same thing, it is beginning to have an impact...
Take Boston's race-relations quandary Gov. Michael S. Dukakis has a special task force with special administrators. He appears on late-night T.V. spots in a playground with an ethnic potpourri of children, speaking of "eracism" in English and Spanish. Mayor Raymond L. Flynn meets with Dukakis and the new Archbishop Bernard F. Law '53 in a highly publicized conference on bringing the city together. The Boston Covenant, formed after a Black student was shot on a Charlestown football field, and the Citywide Parents Council all continue to flail away at the invisible enemy...