Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that "the great majority of the CIA's domestic activities comply with its statutory authority." But the panel found that on numerous occasions, the CIA has violated its charter, which restricts it for the most part to foreign operations. Congress originally set up the agency in 1947 to gather foreign intelligence. Later, as directed by the National Security Council, the CIA undertook covert operations to counter Communist influence in other countries. But the agency has always been prohibited from domestic activities, except those that supported its foreign mission...
...clubhouse--but chances are the money will never be spent that way. For most of the 1100 Harvard alumni in this city of over two million residents, particularly the more than 800 metropolitan-area members currently on the Harvard Club rolls, the problem of finding a place to gather for lunch or a few drinks is not a pressing one. And yet this lack of a clubhouse and the question of what to do with the spare $15,000 are two issues that go a long way towards explaining how alumni in a given city operate. And in Philadelphia...
...Fund's troubles are directly recession-related, and they hurt the Faculty's ability to gather crucial unrestricted funds...
...June 10 Ford will gather around him the 19 members of the Domestic Council-the first such meeting of that group since 1971-and they will begin to assemble a plan for America. It is not going to be a tidy thing like those blueprints that Henry Kissinger produces for the world. It may end up more of a state of Jerry Ford's mind than anything else, but therein lies the immediate future...
...University officials can gather their wits about them, however, they may still be able to turn the impending Kennedy Library decision to their favor by negotiating with state and federal officials to buy the entire 12.2-acre site...