Word: request
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walsh said Wednesday that his request for Swiss bank records may be tied up in that country's courts for an indefinite time...
...Swiss government has approved the request, but eight people with control over the accounts have filed objections and their hearings in Swiss courts could lead to long delays, Walsh said...
...proposed new body would have a veto power over the rights of students brought before it. While an accused student could, under the proposal, decide whether the Ad Board or the new body should hear his case, the majority of the student-faculty body could override the student's request. Similarly, a student could call for an open meeting but have his request denied by a majority of the committee...
...which pared 200 from its news staff of 1,470 before Capital Cities Communications took control in early 1986 and eliminated 75 more positions last year, News President Roone Arledge has ordered a re-examination of the division and its $275 million budget. Arledge's request for suggestions has already claimed a victim: Av Westin, vice president for program development, who distributed to Capital Cities/ABC executives an unpublished magazine article he wrote. Titled "Days of Penury, Days of Affluence," Westin's 18- page memo argued that ABC's producers were more efficient 18 years ago, when he produced the network...
Despite this, Webster often admonished his FBI colleagues that the end does not justify the means. Fretting over a request to bug the chambers of a Chicago judge, he told an associate, "We have to take a strategic look. Even if we win, do we lose? Are they going to say we will be in the confessional next?" He ultimately approved the bugging, but insisted the conversations could be recorded only when agents watching the judge's chambers had good reason to suspect that the visitor would offer a bribe. The case, known as Operation Greylord, resulted in the conviction...