Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fines of $6,000 to $11,000. Soon afterward, federal prosecutors in Boston dropped obstruction of justice charges against LaRouche. Four years of investigations into the financial shenanigans of the LaRouche movement had come to an end. "This is not a political case," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Kent Robinson. "This was a case of theft...
...take up their posts at a time when the beat, though still one of journalism's most prestigious, has lost some of its luster after eight years of obsessive news management by the Reagan Administration. "Like the peso, it's been devalued," admits Boston Globe reporter Walter Robinson, who saw two colleagues pass up offers to move to Washington to cover Bush. Adds Wall Street Journal correspondent Michel McQueen, 29, one of the few reporters new to the White House assignment: "People have said, 'Congratulations -- and condolences...
...forgiveness, which would force banks to write off the loan- loss reserves they have set aside against the possibility of defaults. But countries that have tried to declare moratoriums, like Peru and Brazil, have learned they merely forfeit all chance of fresh credit. Yet another plan, advocated by James Robinson III of American Express, urges creation of an international debt-management authority. The body would buy all outstanding downgraded bank loans. The difference between the loans' current discounts and their face values would be absorbed by the contributors to the authority, comprised mainly of wealthy countries. Once the loans...
Amid the turmoil the Soviet government has finally begun to move. The Kremlin has reorganized a number of departments into the new State Committee for the Protection of the Environment, Goskompriroda, and given it an impressive range of powers. "In this restructuring," said Nicholas Robinson, a Pace University professor and an expert on the Soviet environment, "the Communist Party Central Committee has decided that, after disarmament, environmental protection is the No. 1 world issue." An aggressive cleanup program has already begun. Projects are being re-evaluated in light of their environmental impact. Fines have been levied on some polluters...
Some experts believe local governments should hike cash refunds to people who return disposable items. Said Nicholas Robinson, who teaches environmental law at Pace University School of Law: "If we could persuade legislatures to increase the recycling price for a bottle from, say, a nickel to maybe a quarter or 50 cents, then that bottle would be a very valuable commodity...