Word: key
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...makes sense to have a key to all of the freshmen dorms; we have one that will open three dorms, so why not all of them?" said one freshman...
Others said that having the key is "convenient" and easier than phoning friends orbanging on doors...
Although the Senate report provides a chronology of the Iran affair, Boren ! stressed that the investigation is still incomplete. That was bound to be the case, since some of Iranscam's key players -- North, Poindexter and retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord, whom the panel identifies as a principal conduit of supplies to the contras -- exercised their Fifth Amendment rights and refused to testify. Nevertheless, the report will serve as an essential point of reference for the congressional select committees investigating the scandal...
...key to the private groups' success is getting local communities involved, which clears away expensive and time-consuming political obstacles to projects. In Brooklyn a coalition of powerful East Brooklyn churches launched the Nehemiah plan seven years ago, taking the project's name from the Old Testament figure who revived Jerusalem after the city was destroyed by the Babylonians. "Nehemiah went to the people and said we have to rebuild," says Mike Gecan, an initiative organizer. "That is what this effort is all about...
American foreign-aid efforts have shifted dramatically during the past decade. Washington, once a key source of development assistance, now stresses military rather than humanitarian help. The largest U.S.-aid recipients last year were Israel ($3 billion) and Egypt ($2 billion), and more than half of that assistance was in the form of weapons and other defense hardware. Not a single African country south of the Sahara was among the top-ten American-aid recipients. "We're basically out of the development business," says Charles William Maynes, editor of Foreign Policy magazine. "In the long run, that is unwise...