Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...buses turned balky again that very night, after the first run of the luge, leaving hundreds of people standing on the pavement with cold water seeping into their shoes. The trouble is that Americans would sooner take hook worm medicine than a bus. The fact is that the buses know they are despised, and in their resentment they simply would not stop...
There are many bus-taking nations represented here - Austria, for example, where buses are contented and well behaved - but the Olympic delegations from these nations are made up of big shots who ride in limousines in their homelands, and they no longer know how to smile at a bus that has lowered its ears, pat its flank, and get it to open its doors. No one is quite sure where the buses go when they are not sulkily picking up people at the luge run, but there is no doubt that the ban on private cars has cleared the streets...
...Rather is the one man in television who, working for a competitor, could conceivably demolish the house that Cronkite built. Ambitious and energetic, Rather is blessed with commanding presence and down-home charm. He has also turned out to be a man of abiding loyalties: "I know so many people at CBS, and I just could not bring myself to walk out that door and say, 'Goodbye. I've helped you. You've helped me. That's the way it goes...
...special prosecutor to look into charges of foreign bribes and Defense Department slush funds while he was chairman of Textron Inc. Answered California Senator Alan Cranston sternly: "The lingering doubt remains, from which you may never be free, that perhaps you didn't really want to know or you would have ordered an investigation." Two years after the allegations against Miller first surfaced, they continue to hound...
...case of G. William Miller reads like a business-mystery novel-with the last chapter missing. The Treasury Secretary confidently told the Senate Banking Committee two years ago during hearings for his confirmation as Federal Reserve chairman: "I do know my company did not bribe anybody." But the Securities and Exchange Commission charges that Textron's Bell Helicopter division spent $5.4 million in foreign kickbacks in ten countries between 1971 and 1978. The largest was the $2.9 million payment to a firm, owned in part by the deposed Shah of Iran's brother-in-law, in connection with...