Word: circuitous
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Could it have been different? Connally was far and away the best orator on the Republican circuit. His experience as Texas Governor, Treasury Secretary and Navy Secretary was unmatched by any of his rivals. But voters rejected him personally. Inside the G.O.P., Connally was too well remembered as an associate of Lyndon Johnson, accused by Republicans of being the biggest spender of them all. He even talked like Johnson. His indictment, trial and acquittal in the milk-fund case that grew out of Watergate remained damaging. His toughness, his slickness, made him seem the wheeler-dealer. And rather than...
Entering the U.S. embassy in Kabul, for example, a visitor is scrutinized at a dozen different fallback layers of security. First he has to sign in, have his passport checked and business verified at a gatehouse. Searchlights sometimes follow him across the courtyard, closed-circuit TV cameras beam his image to half a dozen screens inside. Behind the electronically controlled door, credentials are checked again, cameras and tape recorders yielded. An electronic detection booth checks further for hidden weapons; Marines stand ready to frisk thoroughly. Finally, when a member of the embassy staff emerges to provide a personal escort...
...February 20 order of the Supreme Court, the First Circuit Court of Appeals will review its 1978 decision supporting the B.U. chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP...
Something about Whiteface, hulking and picturesque seemed to agree with Stock. The course that plunges down its side is not one of the ski circuit's most difficult runs. To accommodate lesser skiers, Olympic courses generally are not as demanding as most in World Cup events. With a length of 3,028 meters, the Whiteface downhill is a little too short and, in its final third, a little too flat to test the world's best skiers. But the run has its challenges, especially in the upper third, a steep (up to 55° grade), twisting course that...
...First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of B.U.'s faculty union in a verdict reached during the spring of 1978, McCracken said...