Word: prior
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Sources at Interior predict that years will pass before the debate is settled, and environmentalists are playing for time. Even if limited drilling is permitted by Congress, a decade could elapse before oil and gas companies emerge from the maze of additional environmental-impact studies that must be prepared prior to exploitation. By then, the refuge's defenders hope, Administration attitudes will be different...
Even amid that recovery, however, many Wall Streeters were livid to discover that Boesky and the SEC had apparently collaborated in what many considered another stock-trading outrage. Prior to the Nov. 14 announcement of his penalties, Boesky had been allowed by the federal regulators to unload quietly some $440 million in stocks from the estimated $2 billion worth of portfolios he controlled. In effect, Boesky avoided the market slump caused by the news of his own spectacular downfall. Steamed one senior Wall Street trading executive: "This was the ultimate insider deal." Raged another investor: "It's incredible! This...
...uproar concerns whether the President violated Section 501 of the National Security Act. Under amendments passed in 1980, the section requires the President to keep the House and Senate intelligence committees "fully and currently informed" of all U.S. intelligence activities. In the case of covert operations, the law requires "prior notice". It permits delay in notifying the full committees "if the President determines it is essential . . . to meet extraordinary circumstances affecting vital interests of the U.S." But when a President invokes this provision, he must still give prior notice to eight top congressional leaders. Then he has to inform...
...phrase cannot be stretched to cover a period as long as the 18 months of secret negotiations with the Iranians. Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia contends that the permitted delay "might be 18 hours, but not 18 months." Anyway, the Democrats claim, Section 501 demands that prior notice be given at least to the eight senior leaders no matter what. Says Congressman Wright: "The law is not ambiguous." Even some Republicans agreed. Said Indiana's Richard Lugar, outgoing chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: "I suspect the President does not understand...
...help in such deliberations as interested faculties may undertake, I offer this brief essay, concentrating on the issues that arise when scholars are required to submit their manuscripts to outside review prior to publication and when they must decide whether to disclose the sources of funding for their research. Later this year, I may prepare another letter on problems of secrecy and other restrictions that can arise in carrying out scientific research sponsored by industry. My purpose in writing these essays is not to propose definitive answers but to provoke and assist discussion. Through such deliberation, we may ultimately arrive...