Word: interpreting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protecting their "sources and methods" as well as catching the crooks. The CIA is anxious that the Pentagon hardliners, in their zeal to prosecute the Soviets in public, will give away sensitive intelligence secrets about how much the U.S. knows and how it knows it. Some intelligence experts also interpret the data about Soviet activities as being more ambiguous than the hard-liners want to assert...
...leans casually against a pedestal. The other players in the historical drama form a ring. Behind them are the rest of the patients, sitting on benches beneath X-shaped projections that could be gallows or crucifixes. Beyond the stage sits the audience, who must absorb Weiss's ideas and interpret them. But the actual audience is not that far removed from the madhouse. As the inmates bang at the bars confining them, they practically touch us. Their wretched plight is ours; we are all part of one big batty family...
...sturdy political walking stick that can be called into service whenever the road gets rough in the next four years. Yet given the electorate's tepid reception of Reagan clones mouthing the President's line--Bay State businessman Rax Shamie comes quickly to mind--it would be dishonest to interpret the Reagan win as a green flag for the radical right...
...multimillion-acre tracts. The report charges that Clark continues to parcel the shelf in enormous chunks, overriding warnings of an undesirable environmental impact. Clark has postponed a decision on a critical 37 million-acre patch of land off the California coast until after the election, which the environmentalists interpret as a sign that he plans to lease the parcel when it is politically safe. (Clark insists that he is bound by a congressional moratorium until at least...
...asked him to sign the drawings just to be sure everyone understood what would happen. I assumed he was an architect and could interpret the plans." Doyle says. At least half a dozen meetings with a commission's subcommittee also support his claim that he was upfront with the city officials...