Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DURENBERGER SAYS that in 1982 he found out about America's spying against Israel and asked William Casey, then the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to put an end to it, Casey, Durenberger says, refused to do anything...
...goods are piled into motor-driven dugouts and shipped down the Bocay to remote supply points. Much of the traffic goes through a hilltop base deep inside the jungle. Armed guards are posted outside the facility, which is little more than a day's march from the fighting in central Jinotega. At the base, located some 25 miles inside Nicaragua, boxes of ammunition and mortar rounds are secured beneath camouflaged tarpaulins, and a radio operator maintains static-filled contact with forces far to the south...
Hakim was questioned under a limited grant of immunity in Paris on Monday, and the material he provided gave investigators a major break in their effort to track money from the Middle East to Central America...
When finance ministers and central bankers from as many as 151 nations converged on Washington last week for a meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, they had plenty to talk -- and fret -- about. The U.S. and Japan seemed perilously close to a trade war. The value of the American dollar was nose-diving to new lows against the yen. And the Latin- American debt crisis was flaring up all over again. In short, the world economy was showing distinct signs of stress...
...Cadillacs purred down clean streets kept orderly by serried ranks of trusted policemen. The skyline, crowned by the 1,250-ft. Empire State Building, was the most imposing man-made sight in the world, and at night it glowed with the fires of 2 million aspirations. Visitors to Grand Central Station, where the trains were out of sight and the zodiac was on the ceiling, could get information on any subject whatsoever -- and they did, 167,000 times a year. The glorious profligacy of the place was astounding: "Why," remarked one astonished observer, "the garbage thrown away in this city...