Word: links
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much a link between departments as it is a link between people," Fudenberg said. A number of MIT and Harvard professors have collaborated on books--including Fudenberg and Maskin...
...England Journal of Medicine, a team of researchers from Hungary report that women who consume 0.8 mg of folic acid, a B vitamin, for at least a month before they conceive have a dramatically lower risk of bearing a child with a neural-tube defect. Although the link between folic acid and neural-tube defects has been made before, this landmark study of 4,156 women is the first to show that the malformation can be prevented -- even in women who have no previous history of bearing children with neural- tube defects...
...Defense this week. No. 2: Clinton has settled on Richard Riley, former Governor of South Carolina, as Secretary of Education, instead of Johnnetta Cole (or so say the leakers). That indicates the President-elect is shying away from people who might face tough confirmation hearings. Conservatives have tried to link Cole, head of Atlanta's Spelman College, to pro-Palestinian and pro-Cuban groups. Retiring Colorado Senator Timothy Wirth is said to have lost his chance to be Secretary of Energy because confirmation questioners might challenge his associations with savings and loans in his state...
...true, it could rank as the dirtiest trick of them all. In an article in the New Yorker, Seymour M. Hersh claims that unreleased archive tapes reveal that Richard Nixon tried in 1972 to link Democratic Party officials to the shooting of Alabama Governor George Wallace. Elvin Stanton, Wallace's chief aide, is calling for the release of all tapes dealing with the Nixon-Wallace affair, now held in secret in the National Archives. But Nixon lawyer R. Stan Mortenson ridiculed Hersh's sources for the story as "incompetent, clerical- level archivists...
BILL CLINTON IS MULLING WAYS TO LINK BLOCKS OF FEDERAL agencies and departments in order to advance major policies quickly and efficiently. The Departments of Energy and Interior, for example, might form a kind of task force with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Sources close to Transition Central say the President-elect is now leaning toward elevating EPA to Cabinet-level status. Top choice for Secretary of EPA: former Colorado Senator TIM WIRTH...