Word: donee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trip to Palm Springs should give us a lot of time to work on the little things that can make us faster," Co-Captain Michele Engh said. "Only one phase of our training is done so far, so we do have some more things to accomplish...
...task is to collect and analyze data and to help maintain American interests abroad. The K-School's mission is to study and help improve the operations of government. It would be foolish to maintain that the CIA has not acted objectionably in the past. But it has done so at the behest of leaders who failed to understand that America's interests abroad almost always fall with those on the side of "democracy." Professors Neustadt, May and Treverton can only help the CIA do its job of advising America's leaders where the interests of democracy...
...This has done nothing more than exacerbate the situation, allowing both groups to blame each other and the administration for trying to restrict free speech at Harvard, and allowing the administration to dismiss student concerns as immature and uninformed. This vicious circle can only be broken through a change in the basic university policy...
...Urgent operations can be postponed for three to four months while a patient waits for a hospital bed. "You can queue up and wait to die," says Ferrarotti, "or you can drop 400,000 lire (($325)) up front to ensure yourself a place." A payoff helps to get things done. In a new study, Professor Franco Cazzola of the University of Catania estimates that the kickback industry, the entrenched system of institutionalized bribery, amounts to 3.3 trillion lire ($2.7 billion) a year. One Turin industrialist admits that he does not want his son to follow in his footsteps as head...
...rainmakers, are adding to the tab for clients. Ward Bower of the legal consulting firm Altman & Weil reports that rates have been soaring, to as much as $350 an hour this year for a full partner (up from about $300 last year) and as much as $100 for work done by the newest associates. To control costs, some firms have | created a new second-tier position, sometimes called staff attorney. Often recruited from less prestigious schools and hired at bargain salaries, these lawyers handle the grunt tasks. Unlike regular associates, they have no hope of becoming full partners...