Word: marshaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year old Mellon Fellowship program is designed to help junior faculty obtain tenure posts at their schools by giving them an opportunity to "demonstrate their scholarly potential," said University Marshal Richard M. Hunt, the program's director...
...things come to the President as naturally as breathing. Are they a sign of renewed vitality or a desperate camouflage of decay? The underlying instincts that once enabled him to judge correctly the men about him, the internal commitment and fire that carried him beyond his woeful failures to marshal the facts, the old surges of common sense that helped him hold the national trust are what are in question...
...author's own disbelief seems not to be wholly suspended in this drowsy, amiable thriller about the German Occupation of Britain's Channel Islands during World War II. The narrative is full of cinematic echoes. There is a real Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and a fake ("Heini Baum, Jewish actor and cabaret performer from Berlin and proud of it"), both of whom suggest James Mason in the title role of The Desert Fox. There is an Allied intelligence agent living hazardously as a German officer; Christopher Plummer lounged through just such a role in Hanover Street. A heartbreakingly young...
West Europeans believe that an Iranscam-style scandal is unlikely in their countries for institutional and psychological reasons. In Britain, for example, there is no government equivalent of the National Security Council, only a benign advisory appendage to 10 Downing Street known as the Cabinet Office. Insists Field Marshal Lord Bramall, a former Chief of the General Staff: "The idea of a bunch of military cowboys running their own foreign policy out of the Cabinet Office is too absurd to contemplate." On the Continent, a widespread feeling exists that if anything like Iranscam were uncovered, it would not have...
...military has also criticized. Among these are Labor Minister Augusto Sanchez and Local Government Minister Aquilino Pimentel. Aquino has appeared to be reluctant to make changes, partly out of friendship and partly because she does not have many suitable candidates to offer as replacements. In addition, she needs to marshal support for the campaign to ratify the new constitution. Enrile, who may emerge as the leading opposition figure and the heir to much of Ferdinand Marcos' dormant support, is opposed to ratification and reportedly plans to campaign against...