Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MBTA General Manager James F. O'Leary told the Boston Sunday Globe that transit officials want to proceed carefully with the expansion...
...Reagan Administration kept a close eye on the Costa Rica summit. In a whirlwind tour of Central America two weeks ago, Lieut. General Colin Powell, Reagan's National Security Adviser, irritated Nicaragua's neighbors by suggesting that they might suffer U.S. aid cutbacks if they abandoned the contras. Powell also urged them to condemn the Sandinistas' intransigence as a major obstacle to peace. The Administration's critics saw the mission as part of an overall plan to topple the Sandinistas by using the contras to wage a proxy war. The outcome of last week's summit, however, seemed...
...famous father that he hardly resembled him at all. While Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was wiry, aloof and dictatorial, his son was rotund, jovial and pragmatic. The elder Chiang fielded armies against both the Japanese and Mao Zedong's Communists. The younger, though bearing the nominal rank of general, never saw action on the battlefield. Yet after the Nationalists fled the mainland, it was the son who helped transform the father's defeat into victory. Chiang Ching-kuo's inheritance was the loss of China; when he died last week of heart failure at 77, he left the miracle...
Silber told the faculty that Redmont had removed Goldman because of his active campaigning against Redmont's attempts to stop the Afghan Media Project. He added that Redmont later refused to rescind his charges against Goldman after an investigation by the university's general counsel found the dean's actions unjustified...
...Irvin Painter. The split on the nominating committee on the fifth slot had nothing to do with opposition to Isaac because he was black or because his field was black or because his field was "too esoteric" or "too flaky" but rather reflected concern about the electability among the general, non-activist, in many cases conservative, alumni/ae population of someone who had sued Harvard University. Had he been white, the concern would have been the same. Making the strongest possible statement is one thing; getting progressive people actually elected sometimes is quite another. One can no doubt legitimately disagree with...