Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Issues of economic and political power are central to NOW's agenda for women's equality" said Massachusetts NOW President Jennifer Jackman. "Without the feminization of power, we will never eliminate the feminization of poverty...
...Crimes of Patriots, Jonathan Kwitny uses an investigation by the Australian government as a point of departure for his own inquiry, which connects Nugan Hand to drug trafficking, illegal arms sales--and the Central Intelligence Agency. He presents what appeared to be the suicide of an Australian banker as a chapter in a tale of illegal activities undertaken by former and current United States intelligence personnel...
Kwitny's research is formidable--so formidable, in fact that details of specific incidents tend to detract from his central purpose. While The Crimes of Patriots succeeds as an account of a series of interesting events, the events are not well enough connected to form a broad indictment of the CIA. The sometimes deadening effect of detail is evident when Kwitny recounts the questioning of Geort...
During the period in which the Dickinson Endowment is building, we would expect that officials of the School of Government and the central administration of the University would configure this Fund on a quasi-endowment basis. In this instance, both principal and income can be expended during the intial years at a rate to be mutually determined by the donors and the School. It is understood, moreover, that the Dickinson Fund will be credited with earned income each year on the corpus of the Fund. The current rate we understand is at Treasury Bills plus...
...widely respected economic commentator for the Financial Times, ventured a prediction that the stock slump would clip half a point off Britain's 3.0% projected growth rate next year. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called for a healthy dose of budgetary realism in Washington, and Chancellor Lawson reminded tight-fisted central bankers in Bonn that it was a credit crunch that turned the 1929 Crash into the painful 1930s Depression. Said he, referring to West Germany's reluctance to stoke its economy: "It would certainly be helpful if the German monetary authorities were to show more awareness of this...