Word: marylander
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...specific bipartisan bow was the appointment of a special envoy to seek a peaceful solution in Central America. This was the brainchild of Maryland Congressman Clarence Long, chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee that handles foreign aid. Long and his colleagues, however, were disappointed by Reagan's choice of former Democratic Senator Richard Stone of Florida (see box). They feel Stone is too aligned with the current Administration, for which he has undertaken several diplomatic missions in Central America, and with the deposed right-wing dictatorship of Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia in Guatemala, for which he served as a paid lobbyist...
Commencement speakers generally feel a bit nervous but pleased to have been asked. But at Maryland's Anne Arundel Community College later this month, the not-entirely-welcome commencement speaker will feel nothing, because he is an it: a 5-ft.-2-in.-tall, 175-lb. mobile machine loaded with a computer and named, by its California manufacturer, Robot Redford...
European case by warning, "As long as you stick to this policy of high deficits, an overvalued dollar, capital sunk in for the health of the New York stock market but not industry, then there will be pressure for protectionism." U.S. Senator Charles Mathias, a Republican from Maryland, also took the lead in voicing concern over protectionism, referring specifically to rising U.S. public pressures for import restrictions. "Protectionism is a serious problem that needs a high degree of understanding by the American people," he said. "We need all the help we can get from other countries of the alliance...
Meanwhile, in another case of corruption at Maryland, university president John Toil has recommended that the Board of Regents fire jailed mechanical engineering professor Shao Ti Hsu became Hsu's perjury conviction constitutes a violation of the faculty conduct code...
...sentenced to 20 months to seven years in jail April 6 by a Washington, D.C., superior court judge for lying under oath about receiving documents ordering him to make repairs to rental properties he owned there. --The University of Maryland Diamondback