Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time, "The moral fiber of America itself stands revealed." Just as the Iran-contra hearings began as a road-show Watergate, it is easy to find other 20th century parallels to today's eviscerated ethics. As New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan puts it, "If you want to read about Tammy Bakker, read Sinclair Lewis. If you want to read about insider trading, read Ida Tarbell...
...calmly answering as presiding Judge Andre Cerdini probed his career with the Nazi SS, his work for U.S. Army Intelligence after the war, his flight to South America in 1951 and, finally, his 1983 expulsion from Bolivia to stand trial in France. Unexpectedly, Barbie asked Cerdini for permission to read a statement. "I am being held here illegally," said the defendant without emotion, referring to his oft-repeated contention that he was unlawfully expelled from Bolivia. "I am the victim of a kidnaping . . . I'm not a prisoner, but a hostage." Then he stunned onlookers by refusing to submit further...
...Eight accounting firm of Deloitte Haskins & Sells, bristles when wags tell him about the latest one: business ethics. The unamused Cook maintains that most business people can still be trusted. Yet he admits, "We have all been embarrassed by the events that make the Wall Street Journal read more like the Police Gazette...
...disheartening to read that the Supreme Court decided discrimination was not proved in capital-punishment cases, even though a study showed that blacks who killed whites were the most likely to receive the death penalty ((LAW, May 4)). Perhaps some future, more enlightened Supreme Court will finally take state governments out of the business of killing their citizens. Until then, the U.S. will continue to be among the few Western industrialized nations retaining the ultimate obscenity, the death penalty. The decision leaves us aligned with such paragons of civilized behavior as the Soviet Union, Iran and Libya...
...bill calling for economic sanctions against South Korea unless it demonstrates progress in moving toward democracy. Foglietta, a Democrat, was forced to strip out some of the toughest measures, including the denial of commercial landing rights for South Korean airlines, when it became clear that the bill as it read stood virtually no chance of passage. But the amended bill would still commit the U.S. to voting against development loans to South Korea by the World Bank and some other international credit agencies...