Word: flows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...existence of a CIA pipeline to the mujahedin has long been an open secret. President Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, publicly took credit for setting up the arms flow to the Afghan rebels in 1979. Shortly before his death in 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat acknowledged that the U.S. was using Egypt to ship weapons to Afghanistan. During a visit to Pakistan last year, Secretary of State George Shultz went so far as to tell several thousand Afghan refugees, "You fight valiantly, and your spirit inspires the world. I want you to know that...
...company's different businesses flow at separate paces. Harvard's stock holdings tend to turn over at the rate of about 25 percent a year, while bond holdings rotate as many as four times in a given 12-month period. Down on the fourth floor, Harvard's trust and gift department, headed by Assistant Treasurer Henry J. Ameral, deals with the 10 or 12 real estate-oriented gifts that come in each month, like individual houses, plots of land or shares in a building. Almost all of it gets appraised and sold. The private placement department, which handles Harvard...
...first time, we can actually foresee turning down awards," says A. Simone Reagor, associate director for research administration, whose office negotiates all faculty proposals and sponsored research offers. While most of the 2000 contracts per year flow through the office smoothly--particularly those coming from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institute of Health (NIH)--about 25 a year must be renegotiated to meet the Faculty of Arts and Science's relatively stiff policy on acceptances...
...disagree?" U.S. patronage of the contras, said Democrat Edward Boland of Massachusetts, "has caused our allies to wonder at our sense of proportion." The Republican-controlled Senate has approved $21 million for the contras. But a standard, split-the-difference compromise may be unlikely, since keeping a meager flow to the contras would not satisfy either side...
...Social Democratic Party led the campaign in favor of the referendum, and its leaders held debates with bank supporters on prime-time television. The Socialists also had the backing of labor unions and religious organizations. Said Tobias Bauer, who runs a Bern organization aimed at stemming the flow of capital from less developed nations to Switzerland: "The country of the Red Cross should not be a pension fund for Third World dictators...