Word: leak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been recuperating smoothly from a bullet wound in the head, suddenly turned groggy last week; doctors discovered that a buildup of air was pressuring his damaged brain. Dr. Arthur Kobrine first drained the air and then, in an operation that lasted 5½ hours, found the source of the leak-a hole in the membrane covering the brain near the sinuses-and patched it with muscle tissue from Brady's temple. By week's end Brady was alert and talking again, though Dr. Dennis O'Leary, spokesman for George Washington University Hospital, cautioned that it would...
Henry Kissinger raised the threat of resignation to real art. In 1971, when a leak of secret transcripts disclosed the White House "tilt" toward Pakistan (in its war with India over independence for Bangladesh), Kissinger was mortified. He never intended to resign, but he sent the signals out through his elaborate network of foreign policy friends. A resounding vote of confidence came quietly back. It shored him up spiritually and also within Nixon's White House...
...officials said government investigators did not find the leakage significant enough to warrant shutting the equipment down, but Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guidelines state, "Transformers containing PCBs can be used as long as they perform their intended function and do not leak PCBs into the environment...
...Cambridge St. overpass--When Harvard built the overpass connecting the Yard to the Science Center and donated the resulting tunnel to the city, Cambridge thought it was getting a break. But once the tunnel started to crack and leak, causing maintenance headaches and traffic problems, they weren't so sure...
...staffs. At this party, Dr. Peter Bourne, Carter's adviser on health and drug issues, was seen doing cocaine. Six months later, angered by what he felt was a betrayal by Bourne on the paraquat issue (the U.S.-financed poisonous spraying of Mexican marijuana later shipped to America), Stroup leaked an account of the cocaine incident to Jack Anderson. Bourne was then under investigation for writing a phony Quaalude prescription, and the Stroup leak was all that was needed to give Bourne the heave-ho. Stroup had succeeded in one stroke in destroying NORML's influence with the Carter Administration...