Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...authoritative administration official who provided an account of the president's early morning conference said new discussions with the Russians will aim at results that would "alter the situation" in Cuba...
Rupp also proposed requiring a set--but uneven--distribution of courses. Students would select how to distribute the courses among the divisions. The distribution courses could account for 12 of the 16 semester courses in a two-year program...
Some of the gold goes to the bank's own account, but most is for its clients. The Dresdner is rumored to be active as an agent for Middle Eastern investors, though much of the demand is from West German money managers. Schreiber advises them to keep one-quarter to one-third of their investments in gold...
...Short trips are fuel wasters. Drives of five miles or less account for about 15% of the mileage on U.S. cars, but consume over 30% of the gasoline. Reason: the trip is over before the engine begins to operate at peak efficiency...
...public and used as a source of everything from mythmaking to sheer entertainment. The phenomenon provides glimpses of the subtle human chemistries from which folklore is manufactured. To know how such mythmaking works is to be freed of all surprise when dramatic events evoke numberless theories to account for them or produce songs, plays and novels to celebrate, rehash and elaborate them...