Word: welds
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...took juicier stuff than that to convict four city officials in 1982 on a variety of charges involving tax evasion, bribery and extortion in connection with their city positions--convictions which gave momentum to an investigation of the White machine by U.S. Attorney William F. Weld '66 Quite simply, it was the blatant extortion of money from city employees, forcing them to contribute to the Kevin White Committee (the mayor's campaign fund) if they wanted to keep their jobs, which caused the scandal. The mayor can argue publicly that it's in their best interests to support the incumbent...
...course, the mayor's options remain open. He doesn't plan to announce his intentions until mid-May, by which time the Weld investigation or The Globe may have around enough anti-White opinion to dim the prospects for a fifth term. But for the past year, Mayor White has consistently discussed the 1983 race in the future tense, not the conditional. And if his chances look good, he won't pass up the chance to make it two full decades in City Hall. Then, his rivals may learn once and for all that right does not always make might...
...conductor, to weld a hundred men into one singing giant, to build up the most gorgeous arabesques of sound, to wave a hand and make the clamoring strings sink to a mutter, to wave again, and hear the brass crashing out in triumph, to throw up a finger, then another and another, and to know that with every one the orchestra would bound forward into a still more ecstatic surge and sweep, to fling oneself forward, and for a moment or so keep everything still, frozen, in the hollow of one's hand, and then to set them...
...could not, deny last week that a number of federal agencies and four U.S. grand juries are looking into allegations of financial misconduct by city officials. The probers include the FBI, the IRS, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Postal Service and U.S. Attorney William F. Weld, a Republican whom White accuses of being politically motivated. While the mayor has not been directly implicated, 13 city employees in the past two years have been indicted on various charges, including fraud and corruption. Two are doing federal time...
...those professors interviewed yesterday had at least a few kind words for Kennedy, who as an undergraduate here lived in Weld Hall and Winthrop House, played football, was member of the Spec Club, and was a business editor of The Crimson...