Word: filtering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Investigators shortly discovered some startling evidence: sugar had clogged the plane's fuel filter and may have stopped the turboprop engine. The FBI, investigating the apparent sabotage, indicated that revenge might have been the motive. Agents were weighing a possible link to an incident in Tennessee last month in which a smuggler loaded with $15 million worth of stolen cocaine was killed in a parachute jump. Beyond that, there were suggestions of a disturbing recklessness. The plane's owner, David Lee Williams of Atlanta, disregarded a mechanic's warning that the fuel was contaminated. He flew the craft...
...purpose of the $1 million fund is not to wield economic or political power but to support educational and individual efforts. This is clearly different from using Harvard's multi-billion dollar endowment as a political bludgeoning device. Bok has never stated that Harvard cannot allow educational objectives to filter outside the University's gates. Bok has always claimed that supplying education to those in need is not only an option, but an implicit obligation of a modern university. Far from contradicting earlier statements, the $1 million fund complements his theory...
...exemplified by a three-day trip last month by Arab students to the town of Sderot, where they stayed with Jewish families. "We feel comfortable enough with one another to speak openly," says Revital Levy, 17, about her new Arab friends. "I think that our changed attitude will filter down through the whole school." Hareven, for one, passionately hopes so. "The worst thing for us," he says, "is to raise a generation of ignoramuses...
...civilians normally under Khmer Rouge control spilled into Thailand, some 25 miles south of the camps holding 60,000 refugees who had fled earlier in the assault when the Vietnamese rolled over non-Communist resistance units. Khmer Rouge guerrillas who had fought around Phnom Malai began to filter in the opposite direction, deeper into Kampuchea, to join some 30,000 of their comrades who are engaging the Vietnamese in hit-and-run warfare...
...Vietnamese now apparently intend to establish military camps along the Thai-Kampuchean frontier in an effort to keep arms and other supplies, which filter through Thailand, from reaching the resistance fighters. Thai military observers are skeptical, however, that Hanoi will be able to maintain its hold on the area once the dry season ends in April. Said General Salya Sripen, commander of the Royal Thai army's eastern forces: "I think the Vietnamese border units will be in difficulty by the beginning of the rainy season. The Khmer Rouge will attack them from the interior...