Word: ryder
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...Daily Mail's evidence seemed highly questionable. One item was a photostat of a letter that the paper said had been sent by Lord Ryder, who as chairman of the National Enterprise Board oversees companies in which the government owns shares, to British Leyland Chief Executive Alex Park. The letter spoke of a "proposed method for dealing with 'special account arrangements' " that had been "nodded through" by Varley. The note went on to mention Ryder's concern about "the escalating trend of payment to 'contract agents,' " especially in the Middle East, and included...
Secret Cash. At a tense session in the House of Commons, Industry Secretary Varley denied having "nodded anything through" that was connected with overseas payoffs. A British Leyland financial executive named Graham Barton later admitted that he had forged the Ryder letter. But he insisted that he had done so only to emphasize "what I regarded as a national scandal," and maintained that other documents cited in the Daily Mail story were genuine...
Varley ordered Ryder to lead an investigation into the slush-fund charges, but pressure was mounting on the government to conduct a separate inquiry. In any case, the discovery of some noncontract payments abroad would hardly come as a surprise. Sir Fred Catherwood, chairman of the British Overseas Trade Board, candidly admitted last week that "in one-third of our markets, bribery is a way of life." Nonetheless, the Daily Mail's story could hardly have come at a more awkward time. Only two weeks ago, at the London summit, British officials joined representatives from the U.S. and other...
Relay Station. The same Romantic awe at the rolling ocean that fills Al bert Pinkham Ryder's Toilers of the Sea, 1880, runs through the work of John Marin right up to his death in 1953. It also provides an essential clue to early Pollock. The immense, horizontal still ness of 19th century plains landscape floods the work of Georgia O'Keeffe...
Northeastern University President Kenneth Ryder has agreed to impose a three-week moratorium on the hiring of administrators in response to demands by black faculty members...