Word: richarde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most clear-cut example was North's conviction for accepting an illegal gratuity -- a $13,800 home-security system -- from retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord, quartermaster of the Iranian arms sales. North admitted forging two letters in an attempt to prove that he had offered to pay for the system...
...systems to put their competitors at a disadvantage. The Department of Transportation pressured American and United to reprogram their computers to eliminate so-called display bias. The agency accused the two airlines of rigging their systems so that their flight information received more display- screen prominence than competitors' flights. Richard Murray, who heads Texas Air's reservation network, has been urging the Government to force the major carriers to spin off their reservation systems. Says he: "The only answer is divestiture, because they will always find ways to use the systems as weapons to ground competition...
Louis Auchincloss, discreet attorney to the well-to-do and subtle novelist of their mores, proposes that the period between 1880 and 1910 could be called the Vanderbilt Era, after its largest and wealthiest clan. In these portraits in miniature of family members -- plus outriders like Richard Morris Hunt, who designed their grandiose homes -- Auchincloss writes with the relaxed intimacy of a frequent houseguest. (In fact, his wife Adele is a Vanderbilt descendant...
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer: J. Richard Munro...
There was no immediate reaction from the administration or House Ways and Means Chair Richard A. Voke (D-Chelsea), whose committee will have to make a recommendation to the House about what to do with the Senate's supplemental budget proposal...