Word: press
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when higher education is big business, when "prestigious" diplomas mean as much as they ever have, and financial scandals seemingly touch almost all the nation's most respected institutions, it does not seem too much to press harder for open information from the schools themselves. If they do not owe it to Justice Department investigators, they owe it to their own pursuers of the truth...
...that are true but he's damned if he's going to run from allegations that are garbage," said Sachs. "Barney's been forthcoming about this publicly. He is equally certain that there has been a substantial amount of untruth peddled, or attempted to be peddled, in the public press...
That kind of shortsightedness, writ large, afflicts the entire globe. This year the U.N. Statistical Commission will undertake a periodic 20-year review of the way it monitors the world economy. The World Resources Institute, a Washington-based think tank, is urging the U.S. to press the commission to adopt a new system to take account of activities that harm the environment and thus to encourage policies that will save it. The opportunity will not arise again until the year 2010. By then, according to nature's own accounting, mankind may be environmentally bankrupt...
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...Damascus last week, flew on a training mission to the Golan Heights, then dropped to 164 ft. and zoomed straight into Israel. It landed on a civilian airstrip at Megiddo, 57 miles north of Jerusalem, where its pilot, Major Mohammed Bassem Adel, 34, asked for political asylum. At a press conference last week, he said he had defected because "I would like to live in a democratic state...