Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...donated $198.1 million to the family's three charitable foundations, more than a sixfold increase from the previous year. Less than $15 million of these funds was actually disbursed, going to some 200 organizations. The remainder was invested by the foundations. That is perfectly legal, but the California attorney general's office began this month to investigate the Milken foundations' activities for possible irregularities...
Rarely has the description "statesman" seemed so appropriate. In his long career, however, Urquhart represented no single state but rather every nation on the globe. During a 41-year career as a senior U.N. official, rising to the rank of Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs, Urquhart, 69, found himself in the middle of virtually every major international crisis. Though he retired 2 1/2 years ago, Urquhart will be in the delegation that will travel to Oslo next week to receive the 1988 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the U.N. for its peacekeeping missions in Lebanon, Cyprus, Afghanistan...
...left the British army in July 1945 and went to work for Arnold Toynbee at the Foreign Office research department. Gladwyn Jebb, now Lord Gladwyn, the Acting Secretary-General, was looking for a private secretary. Toynbee suggested...
...delighted when he became Secretary-General. He is a very well- qualified person and extremely intelligent man, who knew the job very well, a very quiet extremely self-effacing man. He spent the sort of wilderness years from 1982 to 1987, pretty bad years in the U.N., as the only negotiator on Afghanistan, Iran-Iraq, Western Sahara, Cyprus and a lot of other things, and he established a position of great respect with all the different antagonists in all these situations. When the international climate changed and the outburst of common sense began to take place...
...concerned about George Bush." Though Bush has taken various positions on the issue over the course of his long political life, he campaigned for the presidency on a staunchly antiabortion platform. Last week he affirmed his commitment to that platform by deciding to keep as Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, an ardent convert to the antiabortion cause...