Word: georgetown
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...picking up support, the Administration is backing a resolution originally proposed by Democrat Sam Nunn of Georgia and co-sponsored by Republican John Warner of Virginia. The details were worked out at Warner's Georgetown home with Presidential Aides James Baker, Richard Allen and Edwin Meese. The Nunn-Warner Resolution, which is backed by 24 other Senators, would place general restrictions on the use of any exported AWACS. Among them: no third country would have access to the technology or the information gathered without U.S. consent, all data must be continuously shared with the U.S., and the planes would...
Updike's life has bounced back nicely after a painful separation and divorce in the mid-'70s. He and his second wife Martha are approaching their fourth anniversary. They live in an eleven-room farmhouse, circa 1880, in Georgetown, Mass., a small town about 30 miles north of Boston...
...opening of new computer facilities in Chicago and a new headquarters in the Georgetown area of Washington...
Neumann had another strike against him: his close association with Richard Allen, whom Haig dislikes. A scholarly former Ambassador to Afghanistan and Morocco, Neumann was vice chairman of the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies when Allen, a founder of the center, picked him to head Reagan's transition team at the State Department. Haig considered the team inept and unduly ideological, and dismissed most of its members as soon as he took office. Neumann survived-but without ever gaining the Secretary's trust...
Like typical teen-agers at a summer camp, they dressed in shorts, T shirts and running shoes, wore their hair in every length and style, and whiled away the hours tossing Frisbees. But there was nothing ordinary about them. The 192 youths who descended upon Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., last week might have impressed even Pythagoras. The world's best and brightest high school math students, they had come from 27 countries, including the U.S., U.S.S.R., Britain, France, Canada and Hungary (but not China), to compete in the 1981 International Mathematical Olympiad...