Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Observing this current episode as it unfolds, the Soviets must be asking themselves why they need worry about giving up anything in Geneva when the U.S. legislative branch may kill the MX before both sides in the negotiations stop stonewalling and start genuine trading. But even if Congress does approve the MX, and thus makes it a possible bargaining chip, the missile is still a flawed idea...
...board should seize that opportunity and insist that chief among these concessions be an intensive review of Harvard Real Estate--its management, personnel and its conduct--carried out by members of an independent branch of the University, preferably special assistants to President...
...review would allow tenants, city officials, and most importantly, high-level Harvard administrators themselves to devise reforms in the office of HRE, which currently operates as a quasi-independent branch of the University...
...Cambridge, professors at the school where the three Kennedy brothers received their undergraduate degrees, disagreed about Kennedy's effectiveness as a leader of the executive branch. A majority of the 13 Harvard professors interviewed said, however, that while JFK may have appeared at times as a strong leader, few of his substantive contributions have survived...
...branch of the Department of Defense, the NSA has the primary task of monitoring the communications of foreign governments and protecting the electronic communications of the United States. Thousands of listening posts worldwide and a vast computer complex in Maryland allow the NSA to tap into and record all electronic messages entering or leaving the country. A 1975 post-Watergate Senate panel described the NSA setup as a "giant vacuum cleaner." But unlike domestic law-enforcement agencies, which must obtain a warrant from a Federal Judge before tapping phone messages, the NSA gets warrants from a special secret panel...