Word: central
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...services and policies enforced by the institution they choose to join. Although it provides name, status and diploma to the fortunate few, the institution remains wholly aloof from the daily life of Harvard's masses. At various times, most notably upon admission and departure, students are made to feel central to the operation. At most other times, the prevailing orthodoxy is that students must complete their single-minded pursuit of fulfillment--a paternalistic synonym for education...
...last week's collisions involved military planes. In clear skies 20 miles east of Kansas City, a civilian Piper Navajo flying under visual flight rules collided with an Army twin-engine transport, killing all five people involved. In the bright central Texas sky near Brownwood, two unarmed Air Force Phantom F-4 jets crashed while engaged in what the military called a "defensive-maneuver training mission." The crash left debris that stretched for five miles. Two men died, and two parachuted to safety. Finally, over Westerly, R.I., a Piper Cherokee and a Piper Archer, both single-engine, general-aviation aircraft...
West Germany's central bank responded to the turbulence with a cut in the discount rate, from 3.5% to 3%. The largely symbolic gesture was intended to mollify U.S. Treasury Secretary James Baker and other American officials who have called for West Germany to expand its economy as a way to sop up more U.S. imports and, along with them, some of the red ink in the $170 billion U.S. foreign trade deficit. Japan was said to be ready to make a similar move, but before that, Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa suddenly flew to Washington for a private...
...lighthearted about such a serious issue?" he said yesterday. "Someone in central administration must be trying to give me a message...
Both the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency denied the allegations. For State Department officials responsible for monitoring the war and managing the U.S.'s relations with its allies in the Middle East, the charges were yet another headache in the laborious process of maintaining a policy that is increasingly difficult to defend -- or even understand...