Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout Ford's trip, the Secret Service and the local police were haunted by the fear that they might have overlooked another would-be assassin. The scope of their problem was emphasized last week by Treasury Secretary William Simon, who pointed out in testimony before a Senate subcommittee (see following story) that the number of threats against the President had tripled during the first 20 days of September, jumping from the 100 or 110 that might have been considered routine to a new total of 320. Simon put part of the blame on the publicity given to Squeaky Fromme...
...Commissioner about charges, brought by disgruntled members of his own investigative staff, that he had improperly halted an IRS probe of wealthy U.S. citizens who may have filed false tax claims based on income-losing ventures in the Bahamas. Church doubted if this fell under the committee's scope. Privately, committee members seemed satisfied that Alexander had been wrongly accused; he had prudently interrupted the investigation because some of the IRS evidence might have been "tainted" by the way it was acquired. An IRS undercover agent apparently had supplied a Bahamian banker with a girl friend, then removed from...
Dean Rosovsky, who knows the ropes, accordingly spent more than a year after he announced he would undertake a massive study of undergraduate education here downplaying that study. He repeatedly denied he was taking on something of the scope of a similar study (known as the Redbook) in the 40s, by the Committee on General Education in a Free Society, that had had huge national reverberations. This, Rosovsky maintained, was just an in-house program, designed to pinpoint specific flaws in Harvard College and then go about solving them. If anything more sublime emerged, fine. If not, also fine...
...useless information. Approximately half of the book deals with immaterial biographical data, such stuff as when the players were born, where they went to high school, what kind of jobs they had growing up, etc. All of which might have been all right, if it weren't for the scope of the topic, and the fact that the book is only 190 pages...
...scope and complexity of the government require private sector management and techniques that Donaldson said he wants the school to provide...