Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since its inception in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency has had a rocky history due to a combination of Presidential distrust and operational embarrassments. However, for most of its existence, the CIA managed to attract some of the best and the brightest--people lured to the idea of defending democracy, collecting and analyzing intelligence that could prevent the next World War or preempting a Soviet maneuver that could upset the delicate power balance of the Cold War. Now, in this post-Cold War era, the CIA has another war to wage. This time its adversary is on its own soil...
According to Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet, this is the Agency's "biggest recruiting drive since the end of the Cold War." Thus, it would serve the CIA well to review its practice of the polygraph (a 30-year CIA veteran expressed to me his dismay over its use) and find ways to efficiently conduct the security clearance process (a new recruit even had to postpone his wedding due to uncertain timeline...
...council downsizing and hiking the termbill. On both these issues we urge students to vote "yes." A smaller council--one as small as 50 members--will create contested races and give the body slightly more legitimacy. Furthermore, more funds will better equip the organization to perform its most central duty of doling out grants for student organizations...
...long promised as much, and websites have been bubbling for months about the gathering. Hundreds of would-be demonstrators attended camps in civil disobedience this summer in preparation. In a building not far from downtown, organizers literally mapped out about a dozen areas where they planned to choke off central Seattle so that delegates could not reach their meetings...
...building characters around them. Claudia, the lonely cokehead played by Melora Walters, was inspired by the song Deathly. "Everything [Aimee] seemed to be thinking were things that I was thinking," the Boogie Nights auteur writes in Magnolia's liner notes. Mann's songs were inadvertently attuned to Anderson's central theme: emotional rescue...