Word: recoups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upper echelons of the Department of Justice have been severely stung by their ineptness in their prosecution of the Watergate case. They have been severely stung that the President and the Attorney General have found it necessary to appoint a special prosecutor, and they are trying to recoup their reputations at my expense. I'm a big trophy. Well, I'm not going to fall down and be his [Petersen's] victim, I can assure you." He added that Petersen had not only mishandled Watergate but, through "blunder," had also prevented the successful prosecution of high crime figures because...
...strategy of détente. But there has long been an endemic suspicion that the superpowers might make a bilateral deal that would be to the detriment of Europeans-a suspicion that has been enhanced by Watergate and the danger that a seriously weakened President might try to recoup by concluding something spectacular. Last week Secretary of State Rogers departed from the text of his speech at the NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Copenhagen to reassure the Atlantic allies that Nixon would make no agreements with Brezhnev that would be detrimental to their interests...
...Keystone. A cautious businessman despite his somewhat raffish appearance, Berkey still rues a day in the 1940s when he had a chance to invest in a new product called Polaroid cameras, "but I told them I wouldn't give them a nickel." Last year, Berkey finally managed to recoup a bit on that mistake: Keystone brought out the only instant camera that has ever been developed by a manufacturer other than Polaroid. Company officials decline to say how well sales of the 60-Second Everflash are doing, except to boast that they are "better than we expected...
GEORGE BUSH, 48, successor to Dole, is an attractive politician who was out of politics (as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.) when Watergate burst, but is hurt because he is party chairman now. He might recoup by returning to Texas to run for the governorship...
...REGULATIONS for undergraduates prohibit showing commercial films for profit; they say nothing about using commercial films to recoup losses or allow financing of other projects. Proceeds from Eliot films have gone into financing a Hitchcock-style film by W. Donald Brown '74, head of the House's society. Profits in other Houses often go into new film equipment or towards payment for the current equipment. (Among film societies the veritable mark of status is ownership of two projectors, allowing continuous showings...