Word: access
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Reagan announced that U.S. funds for training and scholarship programs for the Caribbean will be increased threefold. In addition, he said a new program is being initiated to guarantee access to the U.S. market for Caribbean-produced clothing made from cloth woven and cut in the United States...
...investigations resulted in guidelines for covert activities, the establishment of Congressional oversight of the CIA and Congressional access to secret information...
Miller says that Congressional access to secret information was an important step toward full participation in policy making. "Though there is a risk of disclosure this is a risk worth taking," he adds...
...expertise and access gained in years of power are carefully nurtured, valuable commodities, to be marketed now through Kissinger Associates, his international consulting firm. It is widely regarded as the Tiffany of that arcane new business known as corporate risk analysis, a growth industry in today's turbulent world. His firm consists of only nine advisers and researchers, a far cry from the 12,000 under his command at the State Department. The senior members are longtime Kissinger colleagues -- and proteges -- who bring their own distinction: former Under Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and retired General Brent Scowcroft...
Sociologist Jeffrey Hadden of the University of Virginia, who was skeptical of religious broadcasters' claims to big audiences in his 1981 book Prime Time Preachers, says the Nielsen report shows a "much larger" audience than he and other experts had thought. The preachers, he now asserts, "have greater unrestricted access to media than any other interest group in America." Powered by TV evangelism, he predicts, the Christian right "is destined to become the major social movement in America" during the late 20th century...