Word: leveller
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...number of years, the Kennedy School has been doing more work in the area of state and local government," K-School Press Director Steven Singer says. "There's a feeling among students and the faculty that most of the creativity in government comes at this level...
...Budgeting and dealing with the press are things that all government officials should know how to do, whether they be on the local, state or federal level," says Singer. "The classes were very practical. I don't think I was well-equipped to deal with budgeting or with the legislature in Massachusetts or the press before I went to the Kennedy School. It gave me more confidence...
MOSCOW--A delegate to the Communist Party conference bluntly criticized President Andrei A. Gromyko and other longtime Kremlin fixtures yesterday, suggesting there is high-level support for removing them from office...
Entering where even the KGB presumably fears to tread, agents reportedly managed to plant an eavesdropping bug in one high-level Pentagon office. They tapped and tape-recorded the telephones of two senior military-procurement officials: James Gaines, director for acquisition and congressional support for the Navy; and Victor Cohen, deputy for tactical warfare systems for the Air Force. They also tapped the home and office phones of an undisclosed number of people outside the Pentagon. NBC News reported that the investigators collected some 4,800 conversations over 290 days and that 671 of the talks contained incriminating statements...
Although Turkey's Prime Minister Turgut Ozal, 61, has led his nation to a new level of economic and social advancement during five years of leadership, last week was one that he may want to forget. First, Ozal's historic meeting in Greece with Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou to settle differences between their nations ended in an affable but thorough stalemate. Back home in Ankara, while Ozal was addressing a rally of his center-right Motherland Party, a man in the crowd opened fire with a gun, wounding the Prime Minister in the thumb...