Word: samuel
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...more parents strike out on their own or with private brokers, some professionals fear that standards and safeguards are slipping. "Adoptive parents won't blink an eyelash over paying $20,000 to $30,000 for a healthy white baby," says family lawyer Samuel Totaro of Trevose, Pa. "This business can be a license to steal." William Pierce, president of the National Committee for Adoption and a militant defender of traditional adoption practices, argues that abuses have multiplied as formal agencies have lost control of the process. "One couple I know adopted twins through a lawyer," says Pierce. "After several weeks...
...inspector general Paul Adams had repeatedly warned his boss, Secretary Samuel Pierce, about the problems and had been repeatedly ignored. Last week the Government Accounting Office reported that the losses in just one HUD program, the Federal Housing Administration, totaled $4.2 billion -- five - times the amount the Reagan Administration had conceded. That bill lands on top of the $300 billion or so needed to rescue the savings and loan industry -- another problem that Washington chose to overlook while the losses mounted...
WASHINGTON--A former top assistant to onetime Housing Secretary Samuel R. Pierce Jr. cited his Fifth Amendment rights today in refusing to answer "substantive" questions by a congressional panel about the scandals...
...studying measures to curb airline buyouts. A bipartisan bill drafted by Arizona Republican John McCain and Kentucky Democrat Wendell Ford, who chairs the Senate Aviation Subcommittee, would give the Transportation Department the authority to reject proposed takeovers if they involve too much debt. At the same time, Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner is devising an Administration policy on how to respond to the takeovers...
...Ingersoll dailies and 200-plus weeklies are mostly undistinguished moneymakers. An intellectual who counts Samuel Beckett as his favorite writer, Ingersoll nonetheless publishes papers that condescend; they entertain more than educate or inform. He blasts other newspapers for giving reporters free reign to pursue investigative and analytic stories he considers of limited interest. Says Ingersoll: "There has been a general breakdown of discipline in American newsrooms in the past generation. It got to the point by the early '80s where you couldn't get the best young reporters to aspire to be editors anymore...