Word: linking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year's Conant fellows may end up serving as an ongoing link between Harvard and the Cambridge and Boston school systems. All of the fellows are planning to return to work in Cambridge and Boston, although some may take on new responsibilities. Several of the six fellows are fulfilling requirements that will allow them to go into administration, but they say that they will continue to work in their urban school systems...
...three-year program, paid for by a $400,000 annual grant from the CIA, will help senior CIA officers develop case studies on the link between intelligence and policy-making. These case studies will be used by the CIA to teach officers about how their information-gathering influences government policy decisions. Senior CIA official Bill Klein, currently the program's only participant, is taking classes at the Kennedy School...
Perhaps the most significant technological development of the '88 campaign is the widespread use of the portable TV-satellite link. In the past, the only way to bounce a signal off one of the dozens of satellite-borne transponders serving the U.S. was to send the signal up from a large ground station; most stations are situated in major cities. Today, thanks to the development of amplifiers that produce more powerful transmission signals, a video image can be beamed to the transponders via a small (90-in.) dish mounted on the rear of a minivan. Although these satellite vans have...
...mates, the Captain shouts into the gale. Not dead yet. Hold tight. His cronies link their arms and close their ranks...
...today. Kennedy's tale of the rise and fall of Great Powers is an uncontroversial one which relies heavily on other historians' interpretations. But Kennedy has created a broad synthetical framework to establish the "dynamic of change" involving military strength and economic capacity in world politics. While this link has been written on extensively by numerous scholars, The Rise and Fall is already an influential new book simply because it forcefully documents the importance of this dynamic over the last 400 years...