Word: trailingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looks now like the new mayor's first few months in office will be placid. Two potentially bitter strikes, involving firemen and hospital workers, have been settled, and Beame will not inherit the bitterness left over from the conflict, which will trail Lindsay out of the office. The schools seem to be in better shape than they have been in a number of years, and local politicians have already convinced the public that the state is the cause of an imminent increase in subway fares. The subway crisis provides Beame with a popular position on a vital issue which...
...zeal to make sure it missed no Agnewesque indiscretions, the Congress subjected Ford to an extraordinary investigation. The FBI put 350 agents from 33 field offices onto his trail-sending 70 into Ford's hometown of Grand Rapids, Mich. Soon a steady stream of phone calls began coming into Ford's Washington office from friends and associates who wanted him to know that they were being questioned. Ford had one stock reply: "Tell them the truth-give them everything...
...five months that he served as special Watergate prosecutor, Archibald Cox more than made good on his promise to follow any trail, "wherever that trail may lead," in his investigation. Cox and his 80-man legal staff brought criminal charges in 14 cases, and at the time of his ouster they were investigating literally dozens of criminal allegations extending far beyond the Watergate breakin. Indeed, it was the unfettered scope of Cox's inquiries that led Nixon to the angry decision that...
...leaders of the task force plan to seek quick assurance that Petersen-or any new special prosecutor-is genuinely determined to follow any trail. Within the next two weeks, one senior attorney says privately, the task force will "send a crunch decision" to Petersen or whoever is the new special prosecutor that Nixon has promised to name this week. They intend to hand up evidence involving a "sensitive area" that will force the new prosecutor to make good or else. If whoever is in charge by then fails that test, mass resignations will surely follow...
...might be a very good lawyer for many other purposes, but for this job he's a terrible choice. He's incapable, in my estimation, of inspiring public confidence that he'd follow the trail wherever it might lead," Dershowitz added...