Word: setups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besides its student body and financial setup, the Summer School has an entirely different power structure from the College. Its offices are scattered around the fringes of the Yard, in Holyoke Center, Memorial Hall and Lehman Hall. Crooks...
...point, according to Senate Watergate testimony, he urged that Washington's Brookings Institution be fire-bombed as a diversionary tactic in a raid to seize some politically damaging documents. "Chuck could never play anything straight," says one of his former underlings. "Everything had to be contrived, a setup. Chuck always had to stuff the ballot...
Walzer cites this past year's study of concentration patterns as a model of the kinds of information-gathering the OWE will undertake in order to better help women here. "The office doesn't have the setup, nor ought it, to do extensive social science research," she says. "But we should be able to get the facts so that we can argue that certain myths about women aren't true. Once we find out what the story is, then we can do something about...
...March 27 transcript raises questions about Haldeman's role in the campaign intelligence setup run by Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy. Haldeman tells the President on that date that one of his aides "believes . . . that the whole Liddy plan, the whole super-security operation, superintelligence operation was put together by the White House, by Haldeman, Dean and others. Liddy, Dean cooked the whole thing up at Haldeman's instructions . . . Now there is some semblance of, some validity to the point, that I did talk, not with Dean but with Mitchell, about the need for intelligence activity." Haldeman concedes that...
Another lesson is that even relatively clean departments are reluctant to police themselves vigorously. Thus the trend toward independent agencies. Citizens' commissions seem to be the most popular. But Philadelphia's and New York's special-prosecutor offices will soon be joined by a similar setup in Wisconsin. Because their sole justification is to uncover venality, the new bureaucracies are proving especially effective...