Word: acte
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Donovan apparently was among Reagan's earliest choices for his Cabinet, but announcement of the appointment was held up by the requirements of the Ethics in Government Act. While other appointees whose wealth consists of diverse holdings can satisfy the act by establishing so-called blind trusts, Donovan was forced to divest himself of his $22 million in Schiavone stock...
...weeks ago, the onetime angel pleaded not guilty to charges that he had stolen $1.3 million from his employer over the past four years to support his wife's ambitions. It was one of Cook County's largest embezzlement cases, and it could be a tragic last act for a promising opera company...
...Poland's independent unions, appear to have reached at least a temporary meeting of minds. One White House aide, delighted that the threat of an immediate Soviet invasion appears to have passed, declared last week in Washington: "Walesa has surpassed Wallenda in pulling off the biggest tightrope act in history." Nonetheless, Soviet divisions on the Polish frontier and in East Germany remained on top alert, ready to pounce if unrest flared-or if the Warsaw government of Party Boss Stanislaw Kania simply could not control the popular demand for more freedom and a better life...
Tess seems to be more an act of atonement than of creation, Roman Polanski's way of saying he's sorry for his scandalous reputation and his status as a fugitive from American-or at least Cal-ifornian-justice. He is telling the world that underneath it all, he is really a very serious fellow, if by serious one means that he is as capable as Irving Thalberg or David O. Selznick or any other old time mogul of making a handsomely illustrated version of a literary classic...
...fires set by an arson ring between 1970 and 1973. One of the men found guilty was Eugene DiFrancesco, who was convicted and sentenced to nine years in a separate trial for his part in the 1970 bombing of a federal building in Rochester. Under the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, the prosecutor in the racketeering case had asked the judge to find that DiFrancesco was a "dangerous special offender" and therefore subject to additional punishment beyond the 20-year maximum. The judge consented, but he tacked only a year onto the defendant's existing nine-year term...