Word: access
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appointed as a deputy minister, thrown down from the ninth floor to the fourth floor of this building. About a day later, somebody turns up offering me privileged access and other products. I didn't let him take more than two steps inside my office. I said to him, "You're not to blame. I understand why you were sent to me, but I have principles. I am against such things. Don't ever come here again...
...course, I have not refused all the privileges, to be quite honest. It is one thing to refuse foodstuffs, access to special stores and various services, but I have not refused an official car, a dacha, a small wooden house in the area where ministers reside and special health services. Among other ministers, nobody else has followed this example...
...hocracy does not differentiate between major and minor issues," the President's agenda can easily get muddled. In an interview, Porter emphasized that "most new Presidents engage in ad hoc decision making." He sees Bush's curiosity and openness as strengths. Another Administration official adds that the easy access the President grants is "one of the reasons people love to work...
...early 1981, National Security Agency officials working at an intelligence facility in suburban Washington made an alarming discovery: someone had made off with a sizable haul of classified information. The thief did not jimmy open a window at the well-guarded site; instead, he gained access to a "secure" cable leading into the facility and was able to trespass electronically. NSA officials believed the breach was the work of an East bloc spy agency...
...editorial of March 9, 1989, shows an intolerance towards minority organizations whose purposes are primarily social. He has confused the desirable goal of integration of public institutions and activities with a mistaken expectation of a fully integrated private social life. A free society should move towards equal access in the public arena, but only an authoritarian society would restrict its members from associating with one another according to personal inclination...