Word: centralization
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...file is updated. Your case is dead-stalled. Memo: get your ass to the rockin’ D.R. and voodoo-vamped Haiti.” The split focus and meandering pace of the novel give the sense of only a passing interest in the novel’s supposed central event...
Thayer Hall is well known for its central location, impressive common room, and...Victorian-era ghosts? Yes, Thayer, long rumored to be a host for paranormal visitors, claimed one of the coveted spots on Internet Web site Hollow Hills’ “Haunted New England Colleges” list...
...used to have five time zones, but in 1949 communist leaders reorganized the country under one zone. Part of western Australia made up its time zone halfway between two official ones. And then there's the state of Indiana, which under the U.S.'s 1918 law fell into the Central Time Zone category. But in 1961, the Interstate Commerce Commission changed the time-zone lines so that half of Indiana fell into Eastern Time (a fact which the state legislature promptly ignored...
Americans observed daylight saving, but they didn't like it. In 1972, after much protest, President Richard Nixon signed the so-called Indiana amendment, which allowed states straddling time-zone boundaries to exempt only part of themselves from daylight saving. The result left part of Indiana in Central Time, part in Eastern Time, part observing daylight saving and part observing standard time throughout the year. Indiana resumed observing daylight saving on a statewide basis in 2006, but it still has counties in both Eastern and Central Time...
...Karzai of corruption are nothing new, and nor are the allegations of his involvement in Afghanistan's drug trade. Allegations about Ahmed Wali Karzai have often featured prominently in complaints of corruption against his brother's government. But the report claiming that Karzai is on the payroll of the Central Intelligence Agency might be the biggest headline yet. The New York Times alleges that Karzai has been facilitating a CIA-bankrolled Afghan paramilitary force conducting raids on the Taliban around Kandahar. Although Karzai fiercely denies the allegations, the Times report feeds skepticism over the direction of U.S. efforts...