Word: schroeders
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...next to him on the erg, you weigh the exact same thing he does,” varsity three-seat Griffin Schroeder adds, “and he just pulls the chain so much harder. He?...
He’s got more than skill on the erg, according to Schroeder and Downing...
While the economics of synfuels turned sour, mismanagement and improprieties within the SFC also contributed to the agency's political problems. Its first president, Victor Schroeder, resigned in 1983 amid accusations that he had improperly charged $25,000 in mortgage payments on his home to the SFC. A year later his successor, Victor Thompson, stepped down soon after it came to light that a Tulsa bank he had headed had been the target of an investigation for securities violations. No criminal charges resulted from the investigation. Early on, the SFC earned a reputation for inefficiency and waste. Says Iowa Congressman...
Brown's disavowals have not convinced everybody. In 1979 Democratic Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Soldier of Fortune was recruiting mercenaries. The probe turned up nothing illegal. Schroeder still criticizes the magazine for its "romanticization of war." Says she: "One country's mercenaries are another country's terrorists." One reason why the magazine has failed to ignite much opposition may be because few in Washington take it as seriously as Brown would like. Brown returns the compliment, saying the Central Intelligence Agency is manned by "hundreds of incompetents...
Without doubt, both the forum and the U.N. meeting had their cacophonous, disorganized and divisive moments. Skeptics felt that the gathering, even at its most high-minded, was fundamentally unimportant and ineffective. Before the conference took place, Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder of Colorado, a committed feminist, dismissed it as "one giant commemorative stamp." But for many participants, particularly those at the NGO forum, the significance of Nairobi was found less in the official proceedings of the U.N. meeting than in the peaceful and joyous way the swirling mix of women from the developed nations, the Third World and the Soviet bloc...