Word: informing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been suggestions [among others, from President Nixon; see page 14] that we were pressured into the cease-fire by the Russians, who in turn were being pressured by the Americans. Hah! The decision was made right here, at the moment of the surrender in Dacca. We were able to inform the Soviet Union right away only because Mr. Kuznetsov [the Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister] happened to be here. I am not a person to be pressured-by anybody or any nation...
...background" briefing has been a Washington fixture for years, a two-sided convenience through which officials can be more candid than usual with reporters in return for having their identities hidden in such collective cliches as "official circles" or "informed sources." Though their ostensible function is to inform, backgrounders are frequently misused...
NDAG has studied Boston-area companies which it contends are contributing to the automated air war in Southeast Asia. The group's leaflets stated it is visiting these companies "in order to inform the employees and the surrounding community about the relationship between these companies and the continuing horror of the 'Indochina...
...time limit on the committee's investigation. "Its sole role is to inform the President, not make legislative proposals," Ackerman said...
...choice but to inform Harvard," he said, "since the practice is clearly illegal...