Word: united
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chafin said yesterday he selected the two women because they "were among the best qualified of the total complement of candidates." Chafin added there is a need for woman-to-woman contact in the University community and that the department will be able to set up s Sensitive Crime Unit to deal with sexually related criminal offenses...
...network did not have enough to fret about, NBC has been trying since November to clear up a scandal that had been winked at for years, according to some NBC insiders. Under investigation are expense-account fraud and the embezzlement of hundreds of thousands of dollars by some NBC unit managers, who handle logistics for news, sports, and entertainment crews on location. So far 18 of the 55 unit managers, including their autocratic supervisor, Vice President Stephen Weston, have lost their jobs, and one has pleaded guilty to criminal charges...
...sized army of company brass, auditors, accountants, lawyers and Government investigators are still sifting through records of the past five years. Each manager has been grilled individually. To safeguard possible evidence, investigators had Weston's office sealed by a carpenter. When they ordered typeface samples from all the unit managers' typewriters, one manager's machine disappeared after a mysterious 2 a.m. fire in his office...
...unit managers, who carried greenbacks by the briefcase to pay bills for travel, lodging, food and miscellaneous production costs, were not content with garden variety expense-account gamesmanship. They padded payrolls, cashed in unused airline tickets and accepted kickbacks from caterers, hotel managers and equipment salesmen. "Organized dishonesty," Griffiths told stockholders...
...critics do not seem to have ruffled Pfeiffer. "The pressure doesn't get to me," she insists. Somewhat defensively, she also says of her role in handling the unit managers' scandal, "I'm not the avenging angel. I'm not Joan of Arc." Her edgy employees would probably accept those statements. Trouble is, they are not quite sure yet just...