Word: keys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charge of the operation and that he had decided, for Reagan's protection, not to tell the President all the details. But there were many in Congress who doubted that the cautious and rules-bound admiral would undertake such a risky venture on his own. Some thought the key man must have been CIA Director William Casey, but Casey developed brain cancer and died before he could be questioned...
Maybe not. By keeping Deaver off the witness stand, where he would have been subjected to withering cross-examination, Miller won not-guilty verdicts on two key counts. Moreover, Deaver and others are challenging the constitutionality of the 1978 law that established independent counsel. Two of Deaver's three guilty verdicts came on charges of lying to Seymour's grand jury that was investigating him for possible ethics-law violations. If the independent-counsel law is overturned, Seymour's work would be thrown out, and Deaver would be liable for retrial only on a single count of falsely testifying...
...began to grow in popularity in America in the early '70s, when luxury San Francisco hotels provided the service to their increasingly sophisticated travelers. Today there are some 1,000 concierges, 120 of whom are registered with Les Clefs d'Or, the prestigious international association whose members wear crossed-key pins on their uniform lapels. Explains Jack Nargil, 39, president of the American chapter and chief concierge at the Four Seasons hotel in Washington: "People want service in a great hotel. Guests become loyal to people, not buildings." All across the U.S., hotels are hiring concierges as part...
...similarly baffled by another vague Gorbachev claim, made during his final press conference, that the Soviets possessed the means to identify the location and megatonnage of land- and sea-based nuclear weapons -- even those deployed on submarines. If the Soviets could indeed pinpoint U.S. subs, they could neutralize a key leg of the U.S. nuclear triad. State Department and Pentagon experts were highly skeptical that the Soviets possessed such technology...
...half- century ago, Paul Nitze joined the great debate over how America should use its power. Nearly 81, he is still a key player...