Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iran desk who transformed the idea of an arms-hostage exchange, originally ^ conceived as a test of mutual goodwill, into a principal objective of the dialogue with Tehran. This mistake eventually left the initiative mired in Iranscam. Says a recently retired senior CIA official: "Covert operatives despise grand strategy. They prefer tangible results that make them look good." The arms swap was sharply opposed by both Clarridge and Allen...
...have rocked New York over the past year. In a statement, Myerson, 62, announced that she is taking a 90-day unpaid leave from her $83,000-a-year job during a special city probe of her activities. Myerson also disclosed that she is the subject of a federal grand jury investigation into the activities of her companion, City Contractor Carl Capasso. Capasso, 41, was indicted the next day on charges that he evaded paying $774,600 in corporate and personal taxes...
Myerson's troubles began last month, when she invoked her Fifth Amendment right to remain silent during an appearance before the grand jury. She informed Koch of the incident only after a local television newscast reported it two weeks ago. Although Myerson explained that she had taken the Fifth on the advice of her lawyer, the mayor was distressed. Just six months earlier, he had threatened to fire city officials who failed to cooperate in such probes. Said Koch: "I want to find out the reasons for her appearance at the grand jury and whether her taking the Fifth Amendment...
...that she abused her power by giving a job to the daughter of the judge who presided over Capasso's bitter divorce in 1983. During the divorce proceedings, Capasso's wife Nancy accused Myerson of "stealing" her husband. Records of the divorce action have been subpoenaed by the grand jury investigating Capasso...
...folks blow up real good. Aging lefties can see the film as a demonstration of war's inhuman futility. Graybeards on the right may call it a tribute to our fighting men, in whatever foreign adventure. The intelligentsia can credit Platoon with expressing, in bold cinematic strokes, Stone's grand themes of comradeship and betrayal. And the average youthful moviegoer -- too young to remember Viet Nam even as the living-room war -- may discover where Dad went in the 1960s and why he came home changed or came home in a body...