Word: koch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other big question remained last week: How much of a taste had the Reagan Administration developed for unilateral military action in the face of a future terrorist threat? At the Pentagon, Noel Koch, the Defense Department's top terrorism expert, argues that just such action is necessary if terrorism is ever to be defeated. Says Koch: "Even the closest of friends are going to have disparate interests on the margins. If you want to sit around and wait for a united strike, it becomes an excuse for doing nothing...
...also wondered about mundane things such as Koch's personal intervention to help a New Orleans chef open a gourmet Cajun restaurant. The Times applauded the Mayor's action, and later endorsed his candidacy, as it has in the past, this time dubbing him "The Restaurant Mayor." Schanberg treated the issue with a degree of incredulity, saying the mayor's intervention on behalf of the chef was, "Big news in a city where the newspapers have shrunk to four in number and suffer from frequent bouts of sleeping sickness...
Recently, the academy received a $2.5 million grant from the Spencer Foundation which bolsters their previous budget of about $250,000 annually, according to Michelle von Koch, the academy's past executive director. Graham's first duty will be awarding 75 post-doctoral researchers the grant money for their projects...
...Middle East, certainly, terrorism seems to have inexorable momentum. According to the State Department, the number of incidents there has doubled annually since 1982. What is more, says Noel Koch, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, the terror "has become more violent and much more indiscriminate...
...Song syndrome, a crippling disease in today's market. The familiar symptoms run like this: The Sommers family, divided against itself since the death of the father, is pulled together by the impending death of a son and a bicycle race, which races in the same sense that Ed Koch whispers...