Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complaints from colleagues in the scientific and medical community that pro-life hectoring from the White House has driven away some well-qualified applicants from jobs in his department. The top spots at several important HHS divisions, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and the office of the Surgeon General, have not been filled. Says a former high-ranking department official: "Disillusionment is considerable, morale is low, and options...
Sullivan may have lost control of HHS even before he was confirmed as its chief. Shortly after he was nominated, Sullivan alarmed antiabortion groups by remarks he made in a newspaper interview in which he appeared to support the Supreme Court's pro-abortion Roe v. Wade decision. Soon after, the beleaguered nominee met with Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, a pro-life Republican who had the power to thwart the nomination. Hatch, who says his intervention came at the request of the President, presented Sullivan with his own list of pro-life- approved candidates for top jobs in the department...
...repairing the physical destruction is only the beginning; next comes the damage control. Dec. 15 marks the start of the high tourist season, and if tourists do not come back, neither will the islands. More than 10 million visitors came last year, leaving behind $7.3 billion. After Hugo, cancellations poured in, even for destinations not touched by the storm. "Part of our problem is fighting people's terrible knowledge of geography," says John Bell, executive vice president of the Caribbean Hotel Association. "There were groups dropping out of trips to Aruba and Barbados, which were hundreds of miles from Hugo...
...streets, badly battered by days of intensive government firepower. Where the rebels went, or how they managed to elude the government troops, no one seemed to know. But two days later, they re-emerged from the gullies and ravines that border the city's exclusive Escalon district and took control of several blocks of the neighborhood, which is filled with luxurious ranch-style homes set off by manicured lawns. As the government sent in its helicopters and light tanks, it became clear that the rebels had switched tactics and were showing the rich that the war could come to their...
Despite the deployment of more than 1.2 million police and paramilitary troops, almost 100 people were killed last week in election-related violence. Allegations of vote fraud were rife, even in Gandhi's own constituency, as Congress used its great wealth, muscle and control over patronage to boost its chances of winning...