Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...contrast to the Jason Epstein book or Tom Hayden's account, Lukas shows that this spectacular extravaganza need not in any sense be construed as a trial. It was a complex network of conflicts, dominated by personalities and fed by all of those issues which have been rightly injected into trial commentary. But certainly there were no winners and the trial has come to no particular...
...what I do when I get past the door is on my own.' " In the state legislature he did enough to be named that body's outstanding member, and as state treasurer he drew national attention by increasing revenues by millions of dollars and opening the account ledgers to the public...
Yoshizane Iwasa, president of the Fuji Bank, which is Japan's largest, found himself held to account for an embezzlement by a minor loan officer in a Tokyo branch. Masao Suganuma, 41, was arrested for taking $5,270,000 through phony loans. Once word got out, President Iwasa was summoned before the finance committee of Japan's Diet to explain and apologize. Last week the bank's board, of which Iwasa is a member, cut the pay of Iwasa and other officers and directors by as much as 30% for the next six months. The directors canceled...
...Your account of a telephone conversation with me in Tuesday's CRIMSON gives a quite erroneous impression of my attitude on one essential point. We do not regard tuition increases as a frivolous matter, and the sad little attempt at humor about Christmas began with your reporter, not with me, although I foolishly Joined in it. I did try to emphasize to him that tuition increases are never good, only necessary, and that we shall try to settle the matter promptly so as to give as much notice as possible to all concerned. Neither of these comments seems to have...
...cited as an exception to the pattern of union complacency the Italianlabor leadership, who, he said, recognize that "capitalist management will never take into account the physical, material, and psychic condition of workers unless forced...