Word: givings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should not be forced to testify at Poindexter's upcoming trial. North claimed that his memories of the secret arms sale to Iran had become so intertwined with the account Poindexter gave Congress that he could no longer distinguish between them. The implication was that he could not give evidence against Poindexter without violating an immunity agreement under which the Iran-contra defendants' congressional testimony cannot be used against them...
...frostiness in Sino-American relations. Says a U.S. official: "Scowcroft made very clear to the Chinese that our Congress is the main problem in the U.S.-China relationship, and that if the relationship is as important to them as it is to President Bush, they need to give a positive response, or a series of them, by the time Congress returns in late January...
Harvard University, whose business school has long been a training ground for some of the nation's top corporate minds, has decided that it will no longer give away its profitable name gratis. By January 1991, companies that produce everything from sweat shirts to chairs to coffee mugs emblazoned with the name Harvard, the university coat of arms or the motto VERITAS (truth) will have to pay for the privilege. Despite an endowment of some $4.5 billion, the oldest U.S. university can always find uses for an extra $500,000 a year, the amount that the trademark license could eventually...
...Wuer Kaixi, we give admiration...
...give covert aid, which the Contras...