Word: key
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exchange for their testimony, North and Poindexter were promised that only evidence gathered independently of their congressional appearances could be used against them in criminal prosecutions. Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh, who has been seeking such evidence, ordered key staffers not to watch the hearings, to avoid being tainted by protected testimony...
...session, Gorbachev has moved decisively in the direction of what he calls radical reform. Before the plenum, some Western analysts suspected that perestroika was largely a rhetorical exercise backed by a set of diluted half- measures. But Gorbachev's latest proposals, along with recent declarations by some of his key economic advisers, point to more far-reaching structural changes. Economist Abel Aganbegyan, for example, has advocated letting prices rise to market levels. At present, government subsidies on such items as food, clothing and shelter run to $114 billion a year, straining the government budget and encouraging shortages and inefficiency. Aganbegyan...
...chain of command in the Iran-contra affair ran from Oliver North, who served as a National Security Council aide, through the National Security Adviser (first Robert McFarlane and then John Poindexter), to the President. Here, in paraphrase, is where the four stand in taking responsibility for key actions...
American broadcasters tend to consider British TV news programs professionally put together but low budget, low key and kind of boring. Instead of anchormen, there are news readers who do not thrust their personalities at the viewer. Only a few interviewers with outsize gall, like Sir Robin Day of the BBC with his signature polka-dot bow ties, are true celebrities (our unknighted Sir Ted Koppels and Sir Tom Brokaws must be content with honorary college degrees...
...past two weeks high-level Moscow officials have told TIME that the Soviet view all along has been that any summit should, if possible, be based on what they call "INF-plus." The plus they have in mind: tying an INF deal to a "framework agreement" that spells out "key provisions" on deep reductions of strategic arms and bans the testing as well as the deployment of SDI in space...