Word: leak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Details of the agreement began to leak out last week prior to ratification by workers and trucking companies. Cost of living increases have been cut from twice a year to once a year. A portion of the workers' inflation adjustment will be used to pay for health and welfare benefits; at present the trucking companies bear the entire cost. The union is also reported to have agreed in some cases to drop an expensive work rule that required longdistance truck drivers to bring freight to terminals for separate delivery by city drivers...
...football cheerleaders will agree it's always important to look at the figures behind the figures. Dean Fox's study on differences among the undergraduate Houses revealed a lot. However, sections of the report deemed too controversial were kept under lock and key and are only now beginning to leak out. They include the following...
...nothing were done about spending and taxes. "We're dealing with perceptions here," explained one White House aide, "and the perception is that Reagan is bringing the deficit down after it was in danger of being wildly out of control." Nor did it hurt to have leak after leak portray the President as stubbornly resisting the tax increases being urged by his advisers...
...disclosed a private State Department memo discussing ways of putting pressure on the military regime in Poland, and the Washington Post has reported on a secret Pentagon study indicating that military costs over the next five years may be $750 billion more than now projected. Furor about this latter leak prompted Deputy Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci and some associates to volunteer to take lie-detector tests to show they were not culpable. Even as the White House was considering new ways of dealing with the problem, word was beginning to leak about another sensitive matter: the Administration's decision...
...first jobs as National Security Adviser to draft statements for himself and the President warning Administration members of the consequences of discussing security information with reporters. According to a high White House aide, announcement of the guidelines had to be rushed because news of their existence was beginning to leak. The crux of the President's order: "All contacts with any element of the news media in which classified National Security Council matters or classified intelligence information are discussed will require the advance approval of a senior official. In the event of unauthorized disclosure of such information, Government employees...