Word: access
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...significant ripples in the Pacific pond have been worrying U.S. strategists. Last year Kiribati, a tiny Micronesian nation about 3,000 miles east of Singapore, became the first South Pacific country to sign an agreement with the Soviet Union. The $1.7 million fishing treaty allows the Soviets emergency access to the cash-starved nation's 33 coral atolls. Two weeks ago Moscow began similar negotiations with Vanuatu, a nearby island nation, and Fiji has also expressed interest in a Soviet fishing agreement. In the latest talks the Soviets are more demanding: they are asking for shore privileges and airline landing...
...critics rightly complain that the decision on which transition rules get into a tax bill is made not on the merits of the claims but according to the ancient rule of who-you-know. Says one Senate aide: "People with access and power and money get them, and those without don't." In particular, the rules are prime trading currency that a broker like Packwood needs to win the support of key legislators, who are thus able to please powerful constituents. The present tax bill might never have cleared the Senate Finance Committee without rules benefiting a slew of projects...
Though this cost efficiency offered by HMOs is desirable, the reduced access is not, said panelist David Blumenthal, co-chairman of the Harvard Medicare Project...
Some of the LaRouchites' latest activities have shown them to be far more aggressive than mere purveyors of political twaddle. A dedicated adherent last month gained access to the country home of Katharine Graham, chairwoman of the Washington Post Co., and snooped around the upstairs bathroom where her husband Philip's body was found after he committed suicide in 1963. The uninvited guest said he was sketching the bathroom for a "research project." Members of the Trilateral Commission meeting in Madrid last month received harassing phone calls from people who posed as Israeli journalists seeking information about the foreign policy...
...reduced the scope of its prepublication review to cases in which scholars have access to classified information...