Word: central
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...principle topics of the upcoming campaign are going to be economic growth and competitiveness and the challenges of foreign policy and national security," Shattuck says. "The issue of government information controls is central to both of those topics...
WORKER empowerment is the central theme of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers' (HUCTW) campaign. The campaign holds that workers at Harvard deserve a role in policy making, enabling them to decide on issues that govern their working relations and their compensation...
Eisenman said that because the Drug Enforcement Administration continues to work with Noriega and the Central Intelligence Agency is protective of the general, verbal commitments to oppose his rule mean little...
...investment bank, and Mandarin Oriental, a leading chain of hotels from San Francisco to Bangkok. Its Hong Kong operations range from the local Mercedes dealership to Mrs. Fields Cookies franchises. But the core of the company's holdings is $3.2 billion worth of real estate in Hong Kong's central business district -- fully 65% of the office and commercial space in the area...
Many young Tibetans would like their leader to be more militant. Angrily noting that there are more than 3,000 political prisoners in central Tibet alone and that Beijing has at least 300,000 troops on the "Rooftop of the World," they advocate violence. But the Dalai Lama refuses to be intemperate. "Once your mind is dominated by anger," he notes thoughtfully, "it becomes almost mad. You cannot take right decisions, and you cannot see reality. But if your mind is calm and stable, you will see everything exactly as it is. I think all politicians need this kind...