Word: paneled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...panel of experts tries to redefine U.S. policy for the crescent of crisis...
...longer send in the Marines with impunity. Always in the background was the hard reality that the U.S. has long since lost its power to do almost anything it wanted around the world, the kind of overwhelming role it enjoyed in the aftermath of World War II. As the panel's discussion lengthened, this vexing problem kept coming back to the table. Of course, the U.S. still has enormous strength. Of course, its vital interests are at stake in a threatened part of the world. Still, what precisely should the Administration do to help-and not hurt...
...panel will hold another hearing later this month and consult with city officials before taking action on the "home rule" petition, which would apply only to Cambridge, and would allow a city review of universities' expansion into certain zoning districts. Harvard and other educational institutions are currently exempt from zoning laws under state statutes...
...review panel "would act as kind of a braking mechanism," Bowersock said, adding he thought most of the projects were valuable. "Many students take music lessons," he said. "That used to be controversial but is now pretty well accepted," Bowersock added...
While the ethics commission has yet to take an active role in the investigation of King appointees, the House recently proposed a resolution calling for it to launch a preliminary inquiry. The state's only other investigative commission, a blue-ribbon panel on the MBM contracts scandal, is currently seeking the authority to look into the Massachusetts Port Authority, an agency directed by King until his firing in 1975. Whether either commission will eventually plunge into the King affair remains in doubt, but Harshbarger said the suggestion "would have to be taken very seriously...