Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brother's keeper." He forces Stevens directors to take what he calls "the low road to morality," or to make a moral decision not because of a sincere moral concern, but because of a threatened personal interest. And his overall strategy against Stevens is directed by Alinsky's gospel, "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize...
...facts known for certain was that the Russian force, 2,600 to 2,800 strong, was on duty in Cuba. Years ago U.S. intelligence began to pick up references to the Soviet force as a brigade, but officials who received that information attached little importance to it. Last spring, worried about Cuban influence in Nicaragua and the Caribbean, Zbigniew Brzezinski's National Security Council asked U.S. intelligence agencies to re-evaluate the Soviet role in Cuba. As late as mid-July, Defense Secretary Harold Brown assured Senator Frank Church of the Foreign Relations Committee that this Soviet role...
...workers were left with little or no benefits. Now the pension protector is itself troubled. Twice the Pension Corporation has asked Congress to postpone putting into effect new provisions on multiemployer pension funds for fear that companies or unions would dump their programs and leave the Government to pick up the pieces. The largest net claim for a bankrupt firm to date was $35 million. In the unlikely event that Chrysler went into total bankruptcy and reneged on its pensions, the federal agency would have to put up perhaps $780 million. The Pension Corporation, whose assets total around $250 million...
...files never seem to stay permanently shut on long gone heroes. Congress in the past few years has reopened the dossiers of Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis to restore U.S. citizenship to those two Confederate stalwarts. Military analysts and moralists alike still pick over the cases of swashbuckling blunderers. Was General George Custer a fit officer or a dumb egomaniac who assured his own annihilation by his foolhardy bravado at Little Big Horn...
...commission quickly settled on a short list of candidates. The most controversial was Canada's forceful Anglican Primate Edward Scott, 60, who is also chairman of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches. But in the end, the commission decided Anglicanism was not ready to pick a non-Briton and thus "do a Wojtyla" (that is, echo Rome's election of a non-Italian as Pope...