Word: breach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pentagon officials were especially frustrated by the Consarc case because the technology breach was potentially devastating and perfectly legal. Consarc even managed to persuade the British Trade Ministry to insure the project for $11 million. Growled Stephen Bryen, who heads the Pentagon's export-control program: "This was an instance of really bad licensing by the British. It was an absolutely squalid case...
Jewett declined to give the names of alumni whose files are protected, adding that the procedure is usually followed for "anyone who gets into national politics." He said the policy was not prompted by any past breach of confidentiality...
...Poland ring with declarations of human and civil rights, they all contain loopholes that permit governments to set such rights aside should the party so require. Thus many guarantees -- like the widely promised right to complain about government misdeeds without fear of retribution -- are honored mainly in the breach, and supposedly independent courts almost never hand down rulings the party does not like...
...limited to the Afghan border region. Islamabad is unlikely to go along with such a requirement. The outcome of the AWACS debate may depend on who blinks first. Washington is reluctant to jeopardize its ability to help the mujahedin, and Pakistan does not wish to risk a serious breach with the U.S., its main supplier of arms and vital economic...
...essays in the newest "How Harvard Rules" focus on what Trumpbour calls a frustrating breach between rehetoric and reality within the University...