Word: decison
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...frustration in dealing with her is that she's not a decision-maker, just essentially a buffer for the real decison-makers, whoever they are," says City Councilor David Sullivan. "But she does do a good job of transmitting community sentiment," he adds...
...will be very significant because for the first time a state court will have ruled that students at private universities have free speech rights," she said of the decison...
...recalcitrance by the Reagan Administration on arms control and other issues. They also wanted to punish and intimidate the Western press in Moscow, which they feel has not taken their peace initiatives seriously enough. The arrest of Daniloff, says Washington Kremlinologist Dimitri Simes, was a "considered judgment and decison by an irritated Soviet leadership." Whether Gorbachev fully concurred is a much debated question. He, Foreign Policy Adviser Anatoli Dobrynin and Shevardnadze were all on vacation at the time, raising the possibility that the KGB staged the Lenin Hills charade without consulting the top political leadership. Most U.S. analysts were incredulous...
...which currently spends 6.4% of its GNP on the military and where Japan has frequently been accused of getting a "free ride" on defense, the decison was applauded by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. The move, however, did not sit well with Japan's Socialist Party, which accused Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone of being "ready to drag Japan back to the path toward war." And according to a poll published by the newspaper Nikkei, more than 65% of the public prefers that the government stick to the less-than-1% approach to defense...
Michael H. Turk, spokesman for the Cambridge Rent Control Coalition, said this larger rate would likely have lead directly to higher rents and applauded the Council's decison...