Word: central
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Delays in making appointments have hurt foreign policy efforts. Your administration was caught completely off-guard when leaders of five Central American countries met in February and agreed to close down Contra military bases in Honduras in exchange for holding free and open elections in Nicaragua next year...
...cost cutting seems destined to continue in a world so interconnected that a decision made in Bonn can lower prices on Wall Street. The West German central bank inadvertently slowed last week's stock-market rally, for example, by raising interest rates to keep German inflation in check. The move briefly touched off fresh fears of a worldwide round of rate hikes and slower growth. Meanwhile, competition from Japanese and European firms that have opened U.S. offices is helping depress Wall Street commissions. Wall Street is not alone in its distress, for such financial centers as London and Tokyo...
...Central Connecticut won the 36-hole match with 617 strokes and thus qualified for the NCAA tournament. Hartford, stroking 632, and Yale, with 646 strokes, finished second and third respectively. Stroking 153, Hartford's Pat Sheehan was the tournament's medalist...
Yale students in ROTC currently must join most other Connecticut participants at the University of Connecticut ROTC units, which include only Air Force and Army programs. In addition, there are two small Army and Air Force detachments at the University of Bridgeport and Central Connecticut State University, which are far from the central unit at UConn...
While no one ignores the fact that fewer minority students applied this year than last (coinciding with a decrease of the applicant pool as a whole), in the final analysis the results ought to be judged according to a central principle of affirmative action. That is, under-represented minorities should be admitted at levels that address fundamental or historical social inequities. At Harvard, which stands as an educator of national stature, such levels arguably should be equal to or even higher than representation reached by minority groups nationwide...