Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will hold. While Reagan has been listening to Haig on policy, the Secretary of State never will have the kind of intimacy with the President enjoyed by Weinberger, an amiable, laid-back Californian who has been close to Reagan since he drew up budgets for the Governor of the Golden State in the 1960s...
...orders for a maneuver in the north. Armed with assault rifles, grenades, recoilless rifles and rocket launchers, the men clambered aboard trucks and rode all night through the newly harvested rice fields of central Thailand. Finally the trucks began to growl up the narrow roads that climb to the Golden Triangle, the opium-rich territory where the borders of Thailand, Burma and Laos converge...
Khun Sa, who at 50 is regarded as the undisputed "king of the Golden Triangle," proved as elusive as ever. Born in Burma to Chinese parents, he turned to soldiering at an early age and adroitly manipulated a princely marriage for his mother and connections with the Burmese government to set himself up in the drug trade. Since 1964, he has successfully challenged the opium operations of several now aging Nationalist Chinese generals, who with their armies sought sanctuary in the triangle in 1950 and developed the lucrative drug trade...
...Golden State 106, Dallas...
...calling for scrutiny of individual recommendations because it would prove both impossible and undesirable. A central review board--the only feasible way of scanning all letters of recommendation--would not only invade privacy rights, but would probably insure that most letters would be substantially identical. But, while the "golden rule" policy may prove difficult to police on a regular basis, it can be strengthened through vocal advocacy and vigorous enforcement in cases of negligence that come to the school's attention...