Word: besting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Healy is the best city manager that this city has ever had," Duehay said to a long round of applause...
Since its inception in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency has had a rocky history due to a combination of Presidential distrust and operational embarrassments. However, for most of its existence, the CIA managed to attract some of the best and the brightest--people lured to the idea of defending democracy, collecting and analyzing intelligence that could prevent the next World War or preempting a Soviet maneuver that could upset the delicate power balance of the Cold War. Now, in this post-Cold War era, the CIA has another war to wage. This time its adversary is on its own soil...
...vice president, I could never [miss so many meetings]," he said. "Even as a U.C. member, it's not the best thing to do, but was appropriate under these circumstances...
...vice president, I could never do this," he said. "Even as a U.C. member, it's not the best thing to do, but it was appropriate under these circumstances." The council's executive board re-instated Burton as a member this weekend...
...whole if they don't have the same vision, and that can alienate people sometimes," says Alexander A. Boni-Saenz '01, a fellow Eliot House council member. "He is a person with strong viewpoints. He will express those viewpoints in any context--not just when it's the best way to unite people and get things done...