Word: arms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost obscured amid the uproar--and the later discovery of Soviet-made arm shipments to the region--were the very real connections between Harvard University and two of the slain...
...think it's going to be a real shot in the arm for women as well as minorities," said Barbara Lee, an attorney on the faculty at Rutgers University and the author of Academics in Court...
...cynic might suspect that one arm of the Government had protected another. The CIA swore to Attorney General Dick Thornburgh that if Joseph Fernandez, its former station chief in Costa Rica, were to use certain classified documents to defend himself at his Iran-contra trial, the nation's security would be endangered. Thornburgh last week repeated the claim in an affidavit to Federal Judge Claude Hilton. So Hilton dismissed all charges against Fernandez, even though Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh scoffed that the "fictional secrets" had already been disclosed in the press...
Invented by Robert Cahlander and David Carroll of the Robot Aided Manufacturing Center in Red Wing, Minn., the robot has a 400-lb. arm that dispenses discs, makes change and processes credit-card purchases. Its computer brain also tracks inventory and cues up tunes for customers who punch their requests on a keyboard. The designers may franchise an army of the devices. Behind every great robot, of course, there is a human -- in this case a worker who drops by once a week to replenish the stock and collect the receipts. And maybe, says Carroll, "clean the glass with...
Although Administration aides spoke of considerable "arm twisting" by Bush, Cheney's turnabout reflected political and budgetary realities more than a major rethinking of U.S. defense needs. Faced with a lingering $110 billion deficit, Congress long ago abandoned Pentagon plans to increase defense spending each year. Overdue as Cheney's order may have been, the armed services responded by leaking hastily assembled cut lists, studded with base closings and hard-to-cut weapons systems that are immensely popular on Capitol Hill. Conspicuously absent from the lists were such big-ticket items as the Navy's Seawolf attack submarine...