Word: central
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When Oliver North, Robert McFarlane and John Poindexter appeared on Capitol Hill, the prospect of indictments loomed over them. Even before Poindexter testified last week, his lawyer announced that the rear admiral was already the target of a criminal investigation. If any of the central figures are in fact indicted, what charges are they likely to face...
Gorbachev cleared a major hurdle at last month's Central Committee plenum, when he won backing for a far-reaching new law on state enterprises. The measure is intended to loosen the stranglehold of the central planning bureaucracy by giving greater independence to factory and farm managers. Among other provisions, it will require that local managers be elected by their workers and that the country's 48,000 state enterprises fund new and continuing operations from their own profits. Before the law takes effect next January, it must be accompanied by a package of enabling legislation dealing with such things...
...body is covered with burns suffered after he was struck by a sky-blue car just after midnight on the morning of July 10. Fogarty was riding his moped to his Dedham residence after work, when he was hit on the corner of Cambridge St. and Mass Ave. in Central Square...
Once again, Reagan's proposed Strategic Defense Initiative may be playing a central role in the Kremlin's thinking. Gorbachev has a history of performing deft flip-flops on whether to demand SDI restrictions as a condition for other arms-control agreements. A year ago, he indicated that an INF deal could be cut separately. That led to October's Reykjavik summit. There the Soviets proposed a package deal, including acceptance of Reagan's zero option on INF in Europe along with deep cuts in strategic weapons and restrictions on SDI. The deal fell apart because Reagan felt Gorbachev...
Presumed Innocent is strongest when it sticks to the facts, the gritty routine of trying to solve a puzzle by finding the pieces and hoping they fit. Rusty, who is the narrator as well as the central character, has been at his job long enough to sound persuasively disillusioned. He describes working conditions in the prosecutor's offices: "In the summer we labor in jungle humidity, with the old window units rattling over the constant clamor of the telephones. In the winter the radiators spit and clank while the hint of darkness never seems to leave the daylight. Justice...