Word: lying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Freedom of Information Act--long a tool for watchdogs of the government--including a request to exempt the CIA from FOIA provisions entirely. He has signed an executive order allowing the CIA and FBI to monitor and infiltrate academic and press institutions. The Pentagon has ordered employees to take lie-detector tests, in an effort to root out news leaks...
...majority opinion fails to mention one face that makes these sins worse that unionization is a positive step for Harvard employees. If the University can oppose a unionization drive and lie to the public about its actions, what kind of integrity does it have in dealing with single employees? The only way to counterbalance this is through a legally recognized union, which will come about through a vote of all University employees in the future. And even though a unionization drive will now be harder for the simple logistical reason that all employees will be organizing themselves instead of just...
House Speaker Tip O'Neill, for one, rejected Reagan's blame-sharing gambit on Lebanon out of hand. "The deaths lie on him and the defeat in Lebanon lies on him and him alone," O'Neill said in an unusually bitter riposte. "He acted against the wishes of our top military, and now he is looking for a scapegoat...
...prairie fairies." Some months ago, he supported a tax on the binoculars, books and film used by bird watchers, wildlife photographers and nature lovers, arguing that they should be charged for using the outdoors just as hunters and fishermen are. He makes no secret of where his sympathies lie: when asked once what he liked to hunt, Arnett replied, "Everything...
...President "has a wide streak of the authoritarian instinct," Sevareid continued, citing the proposal of lie detector tests and censorship agreements for federal employees...