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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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> Scores of payments for clothing ranging from $200 to $800 for executives' secretaries. Sometimes he would give the checks to the bosses and sometimes directly to the women.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Executive Swag | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

> Hundreds of gold-plated watches, pens and lighters kept in a storeroom. Executives would stroll by and help themselves to handfuls.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Executive Swag | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Anderson also asserts that he covered the bills for expensive junkets taken by managers, their wives and women friends. He claims to have provided cash for gambling trips to Las Vegas, including $2,500 that was supposed to be handed to a very high executive through an intermediary. His "training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Executive Swag | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

His counterparts in the company's four other U.S. regions, Anderson alleges, were handing out similar goodies. Says he: "This has been going on for so long that it became a way of life." Amoco declines to comment "because of the investigation by the SEC," but a spokesman calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Executive Swag | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

The empty chairs do not faze Larry Pressler, 37, the smiling Senator from Humboldt, S. Dak. He launches into his pitch as if the room were overflowing. He is running for the Republican presidential nomination, he says, because the other candidates have not been offering specific solutions to the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Right of Every Citizen | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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