Word: warnock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing that Jim didn't like about Martins Ferry was some of the evil he saw," comments his sister Marge Pyle, who now lives cheerfully on a farm in Warnock, Ohio. "He didn't like that my dad had to go to work. Really, son, I don't know why. During the Depression, when other people were standing in breadlines, my dad had work and provided for us. But Jim never liked to see the underdog pressed or people misused. That was just his makeup...
...elite on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. But in recent years they have apparently been getting bargains, and illegal ones at that. Law-enforcement officials charged last week that the store has been helping customers evade sales taxes, which are 8.25% in New York City. Store Manager S. Howard Warnock was indicted on 156 counts of falsifying business records, and Assistant Manager Thomas Foster was named in 124 counts. They could face a $5,000 fine and a four-year prison term for each count...
...probe of Cartier revealed that at least $260,000 in taxes went unpaid on 125 sales over three years. Warnock and Foster allegedly allowed some customers, who will not be prosecuted, to supply false non-New York shipping addresses (out-of-state buyers are exempt from sales taxes). Investigators charge that Cartier sent empty boxes to the bogus addresses, but the jewels left the store in the customers' pockets. Similar tax scams could be depriving New York State and local governments of more than $100 million in tax revenue annually; several retailers are still under investigation. Said New York City...
...Britain two years ago, Parliament established a 16-member committee of experts under Dame Mary Warnock to examine the social, ethical and legal implications of the new technology. Among its recommendations published in July: all clinics providing infertility services such as AID, IVF or egg donation should be licensed and regulated; research on embryos up to 14 days old could be permitted, also under license and regulation; but the use of surrogate mothers should be forbidden because such arrangements are "liable to moral objection." Critics on all sides did not hesitate to attack. A Roman Catholic spokesman called the practice...
...closed the gap. During a scientific conference in Winnipeg, Canada, Gustavus Simmons, head of Sandia's applied-math department, was mulling the factoring problem over a few beers with another mathematician and an engineer from Cray Research, makers of the world's fastest computer. The engineer, Tony Warnock, pointed out that the internal workings of the Cray were especially suited to factoring, which is essentially done by a process of trial and error...