Word: control
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Harrison says students wanted a department--rather than a committee--because it could hire its own professors and make course decisions. In addition, the students wanted to create an activist department that would grant them a measure of control over their education, he says...
Salvage crews pumped compressed air into the $125 million ship and floated it off Bligh Reef, 25 miles from the port of Valdez. From there, it began a 30-mile journey under the control of six tugs to a remote cove off Naked Island for temporary repairs, picking its way through scattered icebergs...
Cuba has had a very short history of independence. The last country to be liberated from the Spanish, in 1898, Cuba quickly found itself under the control of the United States. Until 1902, U.S. marines were stationed as advisors to Cuba. Until 1934, under the Platt Amendment, the U.S. State Department held official control over Cuban foreign and trade policy...
...despite a show of friendship between thecharismatic leaders of the two communist allies, aseries of arrests in Havana yesterday underscoredthe differences between the pragmatic liberalismespoused by Gorbachev and the tight control stillexercised by Castro 30 years after he led aguerrilla army to victory over a right-wingdictatorship
During the hour-long speech, Bundy fielded questions from other noted arms control experts at the K-School, including Academic Dean Albert Carnesale and Ford Professor of International Security Joseph...