Word: desk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took him to, among other places, Bolivia's two-mile-high capital of La Paz. There he interviewed Deputy Minister of the Interior Gustavo Sanchez, the country's top law- enforcement official, who has earned the enmity of cocaine racketeers and therefore keeps a machine gun handy by his desk. Mexico City Correspondent Ricardo Chavira investigated Panama's role as a transshipment point for drug traders...
...movie he delivered a bag of groceries. We took one look at him and knew he was a movie star. But you ain't got it, kid, you ain't got it. I want you to go back to class and study." At which point Ford leaned across the desk and replied, "I thought you were supposed to look at him and say, 'There is the grocery...
...Joseph McChristian looked straight at the jury in a Manhattan federal courtroom last week, recalling a day in May 1967. He had brought to General William Westmoreland a carefully researched proposal to virtually double the official estimate of enemy troops in Viet Nam. "I stood in front of his desk, and I handed it to him," McChristian said. "I gave him a little bit of background on what it was. He read it. He looked up at me and he said, 'If I send that cable to Washington, it will create a political bombshell...
...inch knife while police were evicting her from her apartment. Ward ordered new procedures for handling such cases, but found that the officer who fired acted properly. A grand jury disagreed and indicted him two weeks ago. Ward suspended the officer pending trial and then reinstated him in a desk job. The commissioner's backing and filling has some black leaders complaining that he is an "Uncle Tom." His officers, for their part, last week protested the indictment with the largest demonstration in department history and groused that Ward had not supported them strongly enough. The commissioner...
Weinberger has a voracious appetite for work. Normally at his desk by 7:30 a.m., he puts in a twelve-hour day and leaves with a briefcase full of paperwork. Weinberger enjoys making appearances on the cocktail circuit, though he is a nondrinker. He also spends an occasional evening at the theater or a concert, with an Anglophile's preference for Purcell and other English composers. Indeed, such is his enthusiasm for Britain that last year he accepted an invitation from the Oxford Union to debate British Historian E.P. Thompson on the proposition that "there is no moral difference between...