Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end it became obvious that the Administration was virtually declaring SALT dead--killed, it claimed, by repeated Soviet violations. Reagan's rhetoric, and follow-up comments by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultz, indicated that last week's announcement amounted to a major shift in U.S. policy. It was a change that incurred the wrath of many of America's NATO allies as well as the Soviet Union, and may have hurt chances of a second Reagan-Gorbachev summit this year...
...these fatal procedural flaws be corrected? Rogers is trying to protect his commission's proposals against premature disclosure. "These are for the President," he told his commissioners. Still, some recommendations seem almost obvious. NASA headquarters must take firm control of its sprawling agency, even while cutting back on its paper flow. Anyone in the system holding a strong view on a safety problem must feel free to raise it at any level, rather than being limited to his own reporting channel...
...open letter released in late September. The program, which would send interested Harvard students to serve as interns in South African educational institutions that help Blacks, came under fire in the winter. Harvard continued to support the program, dismissing student and faculty criticism, until it became obvious that those the University hoped to help-South African Blacks--didn't want the interns. The University cancelled the program in March...
...With all the recent terrorist activity, the most expensive thing will be security," Burr says, adding that, "Prince Charles is an obvious target for some groups...
...suspicion, secrecy and high emotions obvious in many conversations with individuals close to the Center may cloud their assessments of its finances. The tenor of those conversations--interviews which professors and accomplished scholars angrily sprinkle with profanities--underscores another legacy of the last several years that observers say will tax any administrator who takes over the Center's direction...