Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worst crisis of his tenure. Papandreou found himself compelled to rebut allegations by the central figure in the multimillion-dollar banking scandal that the Prime Minister personally received some of those millions as secret payments for political favor. The accusations, which ran in TIME and as a cover story in several of the magazine's foreign editions, inspired passionate outcry in Greece and provoked opposition leaders in Parliament to demand the Prime Minister's resignation...
...barracks in Beirut, to hijackings. He is a prime suspect in the U.S. for his alleged role in the 1985 skyjacking of TWA Flight 847 in which a Navy diver was murdered. And he has made a specialty of kidnaping: U.S. officials believe that Mughniyah, under the cloak of cover names like Islamic Jihad and the Revolutionary Justice Organization, has been involved in the kidnaping of at least 31 Westerners since 1984 and that he continues to hold most of the 13 still in captivity...
...COVER: Scientists have embarked on a bold $3 billion program to map genes and solve the mysteries of heredity...
Taxes on alcohol do not cover the social and economic costs of drinking, according to a Journal of the American Medical Association article co-written by a Kennedy School of Government professor...
MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Mangagement Joseph P. Newhouse '63 said the report--"The Taxes of Sin: Do Smokers and Drinkers Pay Their Way?"--was aimed at determining if excise taxes on cigarettes and alcohol cover the costs the habits incur for society as a whole...