Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Agreed to a North suggestion in February 1985 that Honduras get $35 million in expedited military aid and $75 million in economic assistance in return for its help to the contras, many of whom operated from camps in Honduras. The note also directed a secret emissary to brief Honduran officials on the deal...
...Valasek's performance was insufficient for the Crimson, as Harvard fell in the fourth set, 15-8, after holding a brief 3-0 lead...
First there was the radar gun, and heavy-footed drivers were briefly slowed. Then came the radar detector -- a.k.a. Fuzzbuster -- and the battle of highway technology heated up. Police introduced K-band radar, which used higher- frequency signals to fool the Fuzzbusters, and "pulse" radar, which fired bursts too brief to be detected. But each new measure brought new countermeasures, including ever more sensitive detectors and systems that let speeders slow down without flashing telltale brake lights...
...After a brief stint as Uncle Carl's congressional counsel, Nunn returned to Perry and won election to the state house in 1968. Three years later his goal was to create a new congressional district, for which, naturally, he would run. But a man named Jimmy Carter was Governor, and Carter favored a different reapportionment scheme. Let down by Carter, whom he had supported for years, Nunn challenged the man Carter appointed to the U.S. Senate. "I was only 33 then," says Nunn, "a junior legislator. Even Uncle Carl said I couldn't win, but I felt...
Moreover, doctors warn that even brief exposure to noise levels greater than 115 decibels can result in permanent hearing damage. But boomers turn a deaf ear to such objections. With one sound-off rally scheduled for Austin in two weeks and another on Easter Sunday in Daytona Beach, Fla., the air will soon be filled with the sound of cars going boom in the night...