Word: informant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last three months, we have reviewed the evolution of the NSC system since its creation forty years ago. We had extensive discussions with almost every current and former senior official involved in national security affairs. Case studies from several Administrations were also conducted to inform our judgements," reads the letter...
...very least, McConnell's book will inform debate about the future of manned spaceflight in the United States. It's a laboriously researched work--and a testimony to the simple truth that high technology and bureaucratic shortsightedness...
...retailers emphasized that automobile dealerships, the appliance industry and department stores advertise on Washington's Birthday to a greater extent than smaller retail establishments. "Most retail stores used to close for Washington's Birthday up until the 1950s. They initially used sales as a means to attract attention and inform consumers that they were open for business," says Tommi Block, a spokesman for the National Retail Merchandisers Association, an industry wide trade organization composed of 50,000 retailing firms...
...jittery melancholy to his characterization of a onetime star athlete who has become the town drunk. There is a quirky authenticity about these figures, and the landscape they inhabit, that one does not expect to find in movies whose chief business is to warm the heart, not to inform it. Hoosiers may not transcend the banality of its story line, but it does take its shot. And comes close to making the movie equivalent of a three-point play...
Under this system well crafted remarks will be rewarded. Suppose a professor wants to inform a class of his revolutionary interpretation of the main character in a certain play as a Christ-figure. (This will happen in humanities courses every few days, so the example is a good one.) There are two ways the professor can present the information, and our machine will discriminate between them and act accordingly...