Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think it was in poor taste for the New York Times to reveal that C.L. Sulzberger had been cooperating with the CIA for years, one day, and have him write his farewell column the next. Surely they could have let the old boy go quietly. They'll never find another columnist so willing to reveal his luncheon partners after all. "As the Prime Minister said to me just the other...
...fields, and daughters do not end their lives making bombs for a war at home. The crime rate, particularly for murder, is way down. The hatreds that lashed American cities, while not cured, are curbed. The humiliations of political deceit no longer command headlines. Nor do the headlines command: reveal, resign, withdraw, withstand...
...prepared by outside polygraph companies and used before 1975. Since then, they say, Coors has not permitted any questions concerning sex in its polygraph exams. But the union now wants Coors to stop using the tests, which the firm refuses to do. William Coors argues that the tests help reveal "whether the applicant may be hiding some health problem" and ensure that "the applicant does not want the job for some subversive reason such as sabotaging our operation." There is some basis for the company's concern: last August a tipster directed police to a pipe bomb...
Nonetheless, the Freedom of Information Act has achieved worthwhile results. The CIA, for example, was forced to reveal its top-secret MK-Ultra program of drug experimentation on humans. Ralph Nader used the act to pry out documents for his successful campaign against carcinogenic Red Dye No. 2. The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal have pressed with some success to get the investigative records of the SEC concerning almost 400 U.S. firms that have paid bribes at home or abroad. The very existence of the law causes bureaucrats to hesitate before launching actions they would not want to explain...
...century: "Miami Beach reminds you of a New York subway." From a more scientific viewpoint, Frank Borman, the former astronaut who is now chairman of Eastern Air Lines, concluded from his company's research that "the Beach is dying as a tourist attraction." Eastern's figures reveal that as recently as 1971, more than four out of ten visitors arriving in Florida headed for the Miami area. Last year the figure was fewer than three out often...