Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despite years of criticism, the University has made no substantive changes in the escort service. Harvard could make the system work if it really wanted to make the effort and spend the money. The need for improvements grows more clear with each attack on a student. Harvard's failure to address the problem indicates the low priority the University gives to what should be one of its foremost concerns: the safety of its students...
...morning after, some of the giddiness lingered. Entrepreneurs appeared on the streets, hawking $20 T shirts with the slogan I SURVIVED THE QUAKE OF '89, and shops announced half-price earthquake sales. But the mood turned to grimness as the extent of the destruction became clear. Officials estimated that property damage could mount to $10 billion or more, probably surpassing the losses from Hurricane Hugo. Throughout the quake zone, residents awoke to a crazy quilt of destruction in which some buildings were leveled while neighboring structures survived intact. In San Juan Bautista the 125-year-old home of restaurant consultant...
...words gave the country's fledgling opposition little cause for optimism. While Krenz called for a "new course" and "dialogue with all the citizens of our country," he also made it clear that he had no intention of bringing any of the freshly organized reform groups into the dialogue. "Our society already has enough democratic forums in which different interests from various parts of the population can express themselves," he said. While Krenz acknowledged that "problems in recent months had not been sufficiently assessed," he stated that the party would maintain firm control. "Socialism," he said, "is not negotiable...
...Thomas Foley privately proposed dropping the hundreds of extraneous spending programs -- and the capital-gains cut -- from the budget- busting bill. But Darman turned down the offer, thinking he could get the kind of trimmed-down budget he preferred as well as the capital-gains cut. When it became clear the Administration would be charged with favoring capital gains over budget cutting, Darman relented. But by then it was too late to stop sequestration from taking effect...
...there's a little bit of uncertainty about the Executive Order serves a useful purpose. We should be cautious when it comes to coups that may lead to assassination." In fact, the CIA has procedures for high-level review of operations that could violate the ban. And yet a clear distinction between coups and assassinations is not always possible. The ban was not originally meant to restrict covert political-action operations at all, recalls Helms. "A coup d'etat seems to be confused by some people with an immaculate conception," he says. "Coups involve violence, blood and killing, and they...