Word: late
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contract includes benefits that were originally negotiated by the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), which completed its first contract late last month, said Dominic Bozzotto, who heads the dining hall workers' union...
Environmentalists give Japan its highest marks for its turnaround on trade in endangered species, but they question whether the new reforms are too little and too late. While Japan has greatly reduced its whaling, whale lovers are concerned that the country still kills hundreds of minke whales for "scientific research." The Japanese feel maligned by the West on the whaling issue, since they view cetaceans as food the way Americans see cattle...
Thus calmly and apparently bloodlessly, the three-year-old civilian government of Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi was toppled late last week. Although the timing was unexpected, the coup came as no surprise. The armed forces had demonstrated unusual restraint during the Prime Minister's ineffectual reign, which neither advanced a political settlement in the savage six-year-old civil war nor dealt with the country's vicious poverty and famine. Speaking for the rebellious forces, Brigadier Omar Hassan Ahmed el Bashir said el Mahdi had "wasted the country's time and squandered its energies with much talk and policy...
...helped Lonetree let the KGB into the embassy -- it was later disclosed that he had recanted just minutes after signing it. And Government investigators eventually realized that key parts of Bracy's statement were demonstrably false. All charges against him were dropped for lack of evidence. By late 1987 security officials began to concede, a little sheepishly, that no bugs had yet been found in the equipment removed from the Post Communications Center, or PCC, as the code room is known. (The room is sometimes referred...
...other reasons, the twelve intelligence experts who rushed to Moscow in the wake of Bracy's confession were also predisposed to believe the Soviets had got into the code room. In late 1983 French intelligence had told the NSA that a Soviet bug had been found in a coding machine at the French embassy in Moscow. The French warned that the Soviets might also have bugged communications at the U.S. embassy...