Word: statements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mike Schippani, New England coordinator for the J.P. Stevens boycott, disagreed yesterday with the Stevens statement. "Conditions are improving at the plant because the boycott is effective. Stevens' sales are up but their profits are down as they are cutting their prices to push their goods to stores," he said...
FMCA is not for vanners, camper-trailer haulers or owners of the cruder class of recreational vehicles. The distinction is not so much an economic or social delineation as a statement: the esteemed "goose egg" FMCA plaque on the front of a vehicle, be it a mansion of the macadam or a turnpike retirement pad, means that it is a livable, functioning home. Its owner belongs to what may be the largest extended family in America...
Lobbying as such is scarcely a sin. Quite the contrary. "Without lobbying," declared three Senators (Democrats Edward Kennedy and Dick Clark, Republican Robert Stafford) in a joint statement on the lobby disclosure bill, "Government could not function. The flow of information to Congress and to every federal agency is a vital part of our democratic system. But there is a darker side to lobbying. It derives from the secrecy of lobbying and the widespread suspicion, even when totally unjustified, that secrecy breeds undue influence and corruption." Chairman Ribicoff observes that "lobbying has reached a new dimension and is more effective...
Bourne contended that what he had done was "neither legally nor morally wrong." But legal experts say that he actually violated both federal and state laws by failing to use Metsky's name on the prescription. In a separate statement, Metsky claimed that, because she was busy, she asked a friend, Toby Long, to have the prescription filled on the way home from her job in Virginia...
...ruled that the money belongs to Talmadge. But he is caught in a dilemma: if the stock was a gift to his wife, he should have paid a federal gift tax; if the stock was only being held in trust, he should have reported it in his annual financial statement to the Senate. He did neither...