Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Will Sampson, 53, stolid, 6-ft. 7-in. full-blooded Creek Indian actor, painter and rodeo bull rider, best known for his 1975 debut role as the silent Chief Bromden in the film One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest; of kidney failure following a successful heart-and-lung transplant; in Houston...
...Justice Department established that Eatsco had skimmed some $8 million in unearned profits from the weapons sales. The company paid over $3 million in penalties, and Clines, who ran Eatsco, paid $110,000 in fines for filing false invoices with the Pentagon. Secord and Shackley, who Wilson claims were silent partners in the affair, denied any involvement with Eatsco. Secord, then Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, was briefly suspended from duty in 1982; he was reinstated but soon resigned his commission because, as he told the Iran committee, "the fact that I was cleared didn...
...years, the collection had lain dormant, a silent testament to the lack of interest in ethics business scholars had displayed. But this year, the Business School began considering ethics in professional education much more seriously...
Some say it was just a case of spring fever, much like the panty-raids common to the youths of what has been called the Silent Generation...
Like a missionary spreading the gospel, the Soviet leader wasted no opportunity to talk up his policies. "If we are silent about certain shortcomings, then they inevitably grow," he warned. "Half-truth is worse than a lie." Gorbachev, 56, also spoke glowingly of Soviet attempts to bring "democracy closer to man," words that must have chilled the autocratic Ceausescu and his imperious wife Elena, 68, both of whose birthdays are national holidays. Beyond some pointed jabs at Rumania's dismal economic performance, Gorbachev avoided specific charges against the Ceausescu regime. The implicit warning, however, was clear: a recalcitrant Rumania would...