Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...review by CIA inspector general Frederick Hitz--later confirmed in broad outline by the President's Intelligence Oversight Board--arrived on selected Washington desks early last week. It is a document offering many pages (700 plus) but little closure. Agency officials summarizing it have asserted that their organization broke no laws in connection with Alpirez. The CIA did pay him, Hitz found, but it never possessed (let alone covered up) sufficient evidence to establish him as a party to either killing. This is not, however, because no such evidence existed; top CIA sources hurry to concede his possible involvement...
...same time, it is, and plausibly should be, a legitimate function of government patronage to encourage promising forms of artistic expression that are not familiar enough to find their way in the marketplace. This is a thin rope to walk; the NEA fell off it and broke a leg. But you don't kill the endowment over that, any more than you abolish the U.S. Navy because of Tailhook...
...would have limited the Environmental Protection Agency's enforcement powers. The vote killed a series of riders attached to a spending bill that would have barred the epa from using its funds to enforce such regulations as those governing commercial development of the nation's wetlands. Fifty-one Republicans broke ranks to block the proposed limits...
When Breslin's chair broke down an hour later, she was once again at the mercy of others. After telephoning a disabled-access taxi service, she had to wait nearly two hours. The driver charged $90 to transport her and Martinez to a wheelchair-repair shop across the bay. Strapped in her chair like furniture, Breslin rocked uncomfortably in the rear of the van with each high-speed freeway turn. A technician fixed her electric motor, and soon a friend arrived to help her get home. Such is the life of the disabled: determined, resourceful and, all too often, reliant...
...special Senate committee launched yet another investigation into the Clintons' Whitewater financial dealings, a probe Republicans hope will prove politically bruising to the Administration. The initial focus of the hearings -- the handling of documents in deputy counsel Vincent Foster's office by White House aides after Foster's suicide -- broke little new ground. On Saturday the Clintons gave depositions on Whitewater for the second time to independent counsel Kenneth Starr...