Word: leak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When the Administration jumped, Bush jumped too." Shortly after Reagan-Bush won in 1980, the Vice President told key staffers that he would keep his head down and his mouth shut. "I'm not going to operate like Mondale," an aide recalls Bush saying. "I'm not going to leak my differences with policies that are unpopular. No one's going to catch me trying to cover my ass that way." And no one ever did. By the end, even some of Bush's oldest friends fretted. "He's submerged his own views," said former Maryland Senator Charles Mathias...
Over a week ago a leak was discovered under Ingalls Rink--the New Haven, Conn. home of Yale hockey--which threatened to put the facility out of commission for the Elis' game against Brown last Saturday, and possibly move Yale's matchup with Harvard Tuesday night (8. p.m., WHRB...
Such evils, for example, as the assumption that nations are separate unto themselves. Today all countries are interconnected despite their territorial claims, he argues, and "saying that the Japanese have a pollution problem is ! like saying there's a bad leak in your end of the boat." Of course, hundreds of futurists share that insight. Some of them, when pressed hard enough, may even present a solution or two. That is the Asimov difference: without prompting, he offers remedies by the ream. The man who predicted assembly-line robotics in 1939, coined the term psychohistory -- "the prediction of future trends...
...balloon angioplasty, in which a tiny collapsed balloon is threaded into a blocked passage and inflated. Atherosclerotic plaque is crushed against the artery walls, widening the blood pathway. Yet another delicate operation entails tying off penile veins that fail to close during sexual arousal, thus allowing blood to leak away from the penis and inhibiting an erection. Vascular operations carry steep price tags...
...report from Kabul broadcast on last week's Soviet television program International Panorama startled some viewers. Remarked veteran correspondent Mikhail Leshchinsky: "It may be said that the People's Democratic Party is not actually the ruling party in Afghanistan." Official leak or not, that represented another public step away from the Soviet-backed regime of Afghan President Najibullah. For months the ruling P.D.P. has been riven by a bitter internecine war over the correctness of Moscow and Najibullah's policy of "national reconciliation...