Word: departmentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like bargain-hungry shoppers rattling the racks at a department-store sale, foreigners are stocking up on American corporations and real estate. Last week the Commerce Department reported that overseas investors spent $65 billion on U.S. assets last year, up from $40.3 billion in 1987. The Government noted a pronounced...
From his weekend home in Kennebunkport, Me., where he had arrived only a day earlier after his triumphant NATO meeting, a sorrowful President Bush said, "I deeply deplore the decision to use force against peaceful demonstrators and the subsequent loss of life." A White House official told TIME that Bush...
The police force of 70 officers is at half the authorized strength because of layoffs. Its newest patrol car is nearly five years old. Many cars no longer have functioning two-way radios for lack of repair funds, and some cops have had to buy their own. There is no...
Much of the crack trade is conducted in the housing projects, which have been run by a private firm since 1986, when the corrupt local authority was ousted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "Living here is hell," says Villa Griffin resident Rosie Kimble, 44. "I'm...
Look at the issue again, in a subtler shade. Investigators from the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights arrive for a compliance review of Harvard admissions with a specific directive to investigate possible discrimination against Asian-Americans. Harvard has justified the rate of Asian-American admissions--consistently 80...