Word: sec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made gifts of $100,000 to Nixon, $15,000 to Arkansas Congressman Wilbur Mills and $10,000 to Washington Senator Henry Jackson. A federal court imposed fines of $5,000 on Gulf and $1,000 on the company's Washington-based vice president, Claude C. Wild Jr. Now SEC investigators state that from 1960 to 1973 Gulf and Wild funneled no less than $10 million into political activities, a "substantial portion" of which was spent illegally. Gulf appears to have been the largest illegal contributor, far surpassing second-place Phillips Petroleum, which was charged with doling out $2.8 million...
...distinguished Harvard alumnus! But now, disqualifying individual petitions is too tedious a task for them, so they plan to preserve their salaries and control by spending $15,000 (of the members' money) to eliminate the elections which threaten them so, even at the risk of violating chapter 156B sec. 50 of the Mass. Gen. Laws, which provides that "no class (of directors) shall be elected for...a longer period than four years, and the term of office of at least one class shall expire in each year...
...Reports have it that this charcoal-broiled musical may be the worst even Boston has seen in recent years. What can you sing about a 21 year-old peasant girl who died? Joel Grey, fresh from a White House appearance doing the "Money, money, money" number from Cabaret for Sec'y of the Treasury William Simon (who remarked, as Grey tossed dollar bills in his direction, "We need more of these) stars, though, and it's hard to imagine this being a total loss if it's as bad as people say. It probably won't last long, considering what...
...TEMPTING to see in Whitney's personal failings some reflection of the failings of the system he represented in the press and in the public mind. Whitney's image as the White Knight of American capitalism was so ingrained that members of the SEC seriously considered letting him replace the embezzled money quietly and resign, in order to preserve public confidence. And, after an initial orgy of gloating in the press, public reaction swung sharply to Whitney's side, and began to see a stoic martyr where there was really only a self-deluded man who believed--until the last...
...cluster of some 300,000 stars located on the remote fringe of the Milky Way. Addressed simply to "Occupants" of any planets that may be orbiting Messier 13's stars, the message, even traveling as it does at the speed of light (186,000 miles per sec.), will not reach the cluster for 24,000 earth years. If anybody out there is listening, it will take at least that long for them to return a signal to earth. Even so, the favor of a reply is requested...