Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question evidence collected by Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh in the first months of his Iran-contra investigation, before he took a backup appointment from the Justice Department. The ruling also frees Prosecutor James McKay, who earlier obtained a conviction of former White House Aide Lyn Nofziger, to release the report on his investigation into Attorney General Edwin Meese...
...that the ship had defended itself against an F- 14. Finally, at 1:20 p.m. Washington time, White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater read a statement from President Reagan, who had been awakened at Camp David at 4:52 a.m. and told of the new fighting. "I am saddened to report," said the President, "that it appears that in a proper defensive action by the U.S.S. Vincennes this morning in the Persian Gulf, an Iranian airliner was shot down over the Strait of Hormuz. This is a terrible human tragedy. Our sympathy and condolences go out to the passengers, crew...
Small Business Committee Chairman John LaFalce, a New York Democrat, is set to introduce the Women's Business Ownership bill, which will include the recommendations in his committee's report. Among other things, the bill would require the Federal Reserve to limit the circumstances under which bankers could question women entrepreneurs about their marital status. When banks turn down commercial-loan applicants, the institutions would be required to notify the companies of their right to obtain in writing the bank's reasons for doing...
Whether they are rising from the bottom of the economic scale or struggling to pursue careers while raising their children or have simply grown restless working for others, women entrepreneurs have become, in the words of the Small Business Committee report, a "gold mine of human capital." That mine has already tapped into a rich lode, and if the Government leads the way in - reducing discrimination against women in business, the gold rush will keep on gathering momentum...
...Virginia, have set up acceptable statewide systems. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia either have incomplete coverage or lack essential components; the remaining 29 states have not yet set up formal systems. Says Dr. John West of the University of California at Irvine, an author of the J.A.M.A. report: "If you drive across the U.S. and get into an accident, you have maybe a 1-in-50 chance of getting the proper treatment...