Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...planted ten undercover agents in dissident groups in the Washington, D.C., area to gather intelligence about "demonstrations, pickets, protests or break-ins" that might endanger CIA "personnel, facilities and information." By law, the CIA director can take steps to safeguard CIA operations and secrets, so up to a point that operation was defensible. But Colby said that the agents' reports were also "made available to the FBI, Secret Service and local police departments." By those actions, the CIA perhaps crossed the boundary of its charter...
They had lunch together the next day, Matthews and Restic, but not alone. It was Tuesday, day of the weekly football coaches and writers luncheon at Boraschi's restaurant in Boston. Sportswriters, remember, hate legwork, so they gather upstairs at Boraschi's each week during college football season to talk with coaches...collectively. About ten writers, ten coaches, a few hangers on--all there at once, to make things easier...
...federal Bureau of the Census last month named Martin S. Feldstein '61, professor of Economics, to the five-member Census Advisory Committee on Population Statistics. The committee advises the census bureau and helps it gather and analyze population data...
...turned out, Venezuela had a few creative ideas of its own about how to share the wealth. This week, at Pérez's invitation, the leaders of six Central American nations will gather in Caracas for an economic summit. At the meeting, he is expected to detail plans to help Venezuela's smaller neighbors by 1 ) compensating them for holding back part of their coffee harvests in order to raise prices, 2) providing subsidies to countries particularly hard hit by the rise in oil prices, and 3) giving direct financial aid to economically depressed nations that need...
Squirrels are scurrying to gather up an inordinate number of nuts. Geese and other birds are heading south as much as a month earlier than usual. To add to the forbidding configuration, the forward end of the woolly bear caterpillar is ominously darker this season. For legions of hunters, woodsmen and students of weather arcana, the evidence is plain-a harsh winter lies ahead. The omens, they warn, are all but unanimous: animal fur is thicker, the perch are running deeper, and the pine tree is unusually laden with seeds. Linwood Rideout of Bowdoinham, Me., a hunting guide...