Word: thayers
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...investigations into the misuse of confidential or insider information. Such incidents have been provoked in part by the merger wave that has been sweeping over U.S. industry: Reason: advance knowledge of a takeover bid can lead to big profits. Last January, for example, the SEC charged Paul Thayer, former Deputy Secretary of Defense and ex-chairman of the LTV Corp., with revealing to friends acquisition plans and other inside information concerning companies of which he was a director...
...into the middle room and he said, 'Wait, Miss,' and I stopped. He said he had gotten locked in and was looking for Thayer Hall...
...February 8 editorial, "Bring on the Veto," The Crimson called for the Senate to reject Meese's nomination, but noted, "to his credit, Ed Meese's name has not been linked to the sort of sordid activity associated with colleagues like Ann Burford, James Watt, Paul Thayer, Rita Lavelle, Charles Wick or Ray Donovan." But the charges brought against Meese during the recent hearigs clearly qualify him for a choice spot on that list, representing the standard bearers of what former Vice President Walter F. Mondale has aptly termed Reagan's "sleaze factor...
...Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Thayer and consultant to the National Security Council, Thomas Reed, quit their posts after allegations that they were involved with insider trading of stocks...
...successful offensives should be like streams rushing down mountains, seeking the paths of least resistance, flowing around obstacles instead of trying to go through or over them. Hart has consulted the fusty volumes of strategists like Germany's General Karl von Clausewitz and America's Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan. The Senator has studied Indian warfare, Napoleon's defeats, the apocalyptic battles of World War I. His advocacy of a stronger Navy, simpler and more reliable weapons and advancement of field officers over bureaucrats stems from his finding that when armed forces stay lean and flexible, they...