Word: dealing
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After all this torture, Pham suffered something almost as terrible: betrayal. The U.S. Army officers who recruited him had promised that if he were captured, his mother and father would receive a stipend while he was in prison. But the U.S. reneged on the deal. Officers visited his parents and told them Pham was dead, and his family received nothing during the 16 years he was held by the North Vietnamese. When he returned home in 1982, his parents thought they were seeing a ghost...
After three months of negotiations, however, the Justice Department persuaded the union to sign a consent decree acknowledging Mob influence and conceding to court-appointed officers. But the department agreed to hold off filing the decree as long as the union makes progress cleaning itself up. The deal left Coia on the job even though the original complaint described him as "associated with and controlled and influenced by organized-crime figures...
...total defense, which this Nation seeks, involves a great deal more than building airplanes, ships, guns and bombs. We cannot be a strong Nation unless we are a healthy Nation. And so we must recruit not only men and materials but also knowledge and science in the service of national strength...
...presently doing the internship gig in New York. This is a summer activity in which at least 50 percent of Harvard students participate at some point or another, though the city may vary to either Boston or Washington. You know the deal--low or no bucks for the possibility of perks, one of which is the daily Happy Hour where beer costs two dollars per bottle and everyone gets, well, happy...
This may seem a trivial objection on my part compared, say, with objections that are based on the belief that recognizing gay marriage would destroy civilization as we know it, but we all deal with these issues on our own level...