Word: junkets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonder literature, broadly conceived to include even Harlequin novels replete with cover couples in various modes of disrobing, so obsessed with the glamour of the most exclusive gaming tables, never pauses to take in the amours of the teacher on the 3 day 2 night junket playing the dollar slot machines Boring...
...their own, most were directed by the State Department, which works with the marshal's office to see that guests visiting Boston get a chance to see Harvard. From the moment of the guest's arrival until his departure, Anderson was responsible for his satisfaction with his Harvard junket. The former marshal established the initial harmonious relationship between Harvard and its guest, and would then arrange for the visitor to see his American counterparts, whether he was within the University, the city or state government, or in a private industry...
According to President Reagan, who spent an hour with Rios Montt during last week's Latin American junket, the general is misunderstood. "I am convinced," said Reagan, "that he has been getting a bad deal" from the press and foreign policy liberals. "General Rios Montt is a man of great personal integrity and commitment," added the President. So the Administration plans to resume its military aid to Guatemala that was banned five years ago by then-President Carter...
...consonant in Math Ar. Both have at best skimmed the reading so far. Tip is spending very little time campaigning in the district, because, as one aide puts it bluntly. "He doesn't need to," LoPresti has indicated his concern about Socialist opponent William Shakalis by going on a junket to the Orient. The combined possibility of these guys losing Group I status may push 20 percent...
...diplomats in Moscow, there is a ubiquitous Big Brother: the Administration for Services to the Diplomatic Corps (UPDK). A foreign service officer wants an apartment? The UPDK is the landlord. A junket to Leningrad? UPDK is the indifferent travel agency. The bureau also supplies nearly 100 workers to the U.S. embassy. Some of them, it is assumed, are Soviet intelligence agents...