Word: central
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Harvard Police Chief Paul E. Johnson says it is not the job of police to chase smokers. We agree. However, Harvard should take a more active role in enforcing the ban than it currently plans. For one thing, Harvard's new smoking policy committee should become a central clearinghouse for complaints about smoking. This would help the University make sure the ban is observed. If it failed to do so, students, faculty, staff and Cambridge City councilors would know exactly whom to hold responsible. As it stands now, however, the smoking committee has only a vague mandate to coordinate...
...that really is rich, coming from a character who is completely at ease gabbing about his wife's gynecological problems, body dumps in Central America and the step-by-step procedure of killing a man in the gas chamber...
...impossible to sell to America's European allies. Other foreign policy problems are crowding in, and will be exacerbated by the fallout from the Tower commission report. The most immediate and, for Reagan, disastrous effect may be the collapse of the contra campaign. The contras are central to the so-called Reagan doctrine of helping rebels wage guerrilla war against Marxist governments in widely scattered areas of the globe: Afghanistan, Angola, Kampuchea. But the contras cannot carry on their rebellion without continued U.S. assistance. The Tower report shows the extent to which North, Poindexter and the CIA went, in circumventing...
Soon, this sick young man has brought out an entire bag of groceries (including maraschino cherries, pickled peppers, and peanut butter) which he proceeds to dump on the vagrant, splattering the stage and, occasionally, the front rows of the audience. This central event culminates in a failed attempt to snap a photograph--what the young man describes as a "me picture"--while urinating on the human pile of garbage he has just created...
...panelists agreed that the central challenge to Reagan's place in history will be the policy apparatus which the new chief of staff puts into place at the White House...