Word: sec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some form of anti-bribery legislation would also open the way for much more vigorous probes into company books by such agencies as the SEC, the Justice Department and the IRS. Company records relating to possible bribery would be much easier to obtain. Accountants might well be prompted to be much more inquisitive about overseas payments by companies they audit and to report any evidence of bribery. They seem to have been singularly incurious about the foreign accounts of some companies that were later found to have made payoffs; they would have an incentive to look harder if they knew...
...sales of Burroughs business machines. Then the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it is investigating 30 large corporations, each of which is suspected of having made illegal campaign contributions to 54 politicians in the U.S. or overseas. That is in addition to the nine companies against which the SEC has already sought civil injunctions and 15 others that cooperated with the commission by probing their own affairs...
...predecessor as chairman, retired E.D. Brockett, were not present.) With only a break for dinner, they listened to John J. McCloy, former World Bank chief. Though he had no direct connection with Gulf, he had been chosen by the directors to head a company self-investigation ordered by the SEC. Helping him were Gulf Directors Nathan W. Pearson, a key financial adviser to the Mellon family (owners of about 20% of Gulfs stock), and Beverley Matthews, a Toronto lawyer. The three formed a special review committee and produced a 298-page report. Slowly, cogently, McCloy reviewed the evidence...
Though a few diehards still down tequila the traditional way-straight, with a lick of salt and a wedge of lime-most gringos prefer cocktail variations like the Margarita, made with lime juice and triple sec. Other Aztec ?Oles!: T'n'T (with tonic); Bloody Maria or Mexican Mary (substituting tequila for vodka); Brave Bull (with Kahlua); the Freddy Fudpucker (with orange juice and Galliano); and Cold Gold, a sort of Aztec on the rocks. Tequila will probably never rival bourbon, Scotch, gin or vodka in the U.S. It is additionally appealing in another respect, however. According...
This drive for cinematic purity has consumed three years of Kubrick's life and $11 million of Warner Bros.' money. The film is 3 hr., 4 min. and 4 sec. long, and it does not easily yield up its themes. "The essence of dramatic form," says Kubrick, "is to let an idea come over people without its being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it is simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves...