Word: empted
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...giving preferential treatment to any organization or person." McKay is also expected to refer this list of lapses to the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility, which may then launch an investigation of its own. Some Justice officials suggested that Meese's abrupt resignation was designed to pre-empt or at least blunt such an embarrassing in-house probe. But the Justice Department inquiry can go ahead even after Meese's departure...
Carlucci has said he doesn't want the meeting to pre-empt talks on reducing nuclear and conventional forces, but he does want to ask Yazov about the emerging Soviet doctrine of "reasonable sufficiency...
...Thursday morning, lobbing new allegations to which Hart, assisted on the road by just a single aide, was unable to respond. "Obviously, a candidate cannot know every detail," he protested. Hart then called for reinforcements. His chief counsel, Bernard Schneider, flew from Denver and attempted to pre-empt further questions with a detailed explanation. He said that the bills paid by Karl were simply part of his $96,000 loan...
...latest Sandinista stumble began last weekend, after Managua learned that the U.S. press would carry the damning charges of a recent Nicaraguan defector, Major Roger Miranda Bengoechea, who had occupied a top post in the Defense Ministry. Hoping to pre-empt Miranda's charges of a planned military buildup, Humberto Ortega delivered a powerful speech reaffirming Sandinista plans to arm up to 600,000 Nicaraguans and obtain Soviet MiG-21 jet fighters by 1995. Unflinchingly defiant toward the U.S., Humberto thundered, "We do not need to hide our relations with the socialist camp in defense matters...
...unproven judge whose constitutional views would be hard to rebut because they would be hard to find and who, at age 41, could sit on the Court for decades. To make matters worse, officials did not deny that it was hoped the selection of the Jewish Ginsburg would pre-empt the opposition of Jewish liberals to the nomination of a judicial conservative...