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...unnerved to Americans have never learned to accepted the utilization on our technological advance by an economic rival as flattery. Japan's ability to take American research developments, make modifications to stuff industrial needs, and surpass or at least match the U.S. in expertise, long ago forced us to resign ourselves to the existence of high tech the existence of high-tech thievery. The crimes in the common opinion, were always committed in some miserable corner of Silicon Valley where only spies and the most devoted scientists dared tread. It follows then, that little more than a shrug or raised...

Author: By Cynthia M. Monaco, | Title: The Japanese Go for Blood | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

...whatever else you might say about Providence, it doesn't let felons hold office. The city council indicated just minutes after Cianci's sentencing that it would seek to boot him. Cianci announced a few minutes later that he would resign. Once he did, every festering sore in Providence City Hall opened...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Big Mess in a Little State | 5/1/1984 | See Source »

...Commissioner Sanford H. Gorodetsky erupted Sandy, ironically, was both the city's Top Cop and major target in a probe by the police over corruption in City Hall Sandy doesn't like the Police Chief. Anthony J. Mancuso and so he fired him minutes after Cianci said he would resign...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Big Mess in a Little State | 5/1/1984 | See Source »

...these connections by performing small favors, like getting the job for Ursula Meese or helping Nancy Thurmond, the wife of Senator Strom Thurmond, Republican of South Carolina, organize charity balls. (He once put Mrs. Thurmond on his payroll, but criticism of the potential conflict of interest caused her to resign.) Gray says he never asks for favors in return. "There was a time when booze, blonds and bribes were the persuaders," he explains. "But today's lobbyist has to be a straight shooter." Contends Staffer Frank Mankiewicz, who until last year ran National Public Radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lobbyist Bob Gray: Pitchman of the Power House | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...business trips, shared limousines and spent late nights working together. The two strongly denied the charges of a romance, and Cunningham today insists that she was the victim of office gossips who envied her position. Bowing to pressure inside and outside the company, Bendix officials forced Cunningham to resign in October 1980. Less than two years later, she and Agee were married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crying Foul | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

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