Word: recording
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's men about the Bush Administration's commitment to the war on drugs, and -- on the record, at least -- their answers will ring with phrases like "a threat to democracy," "highest priority," "top of our agenda...
...Raab acknowledges that his agency has not made a dent in the U.S. drug supply, despite some record-breaking seizures. He contends that interdiction and domestic enforcement are doomed to fail as long as the international market is glutted with cocaine, marijuana and heroin. "We're not using any diplomatic energies of consequence to try to put pressure on the producer and transshipping countries," he complains...
...loyalty went beyond reasonable bounds: Sawyer remained with Nixon for nearly four more years in San Clemente, helping Frank Gannon (whom she was dating) gather material for the President's autobiography. "I had the illusion of indispensability," she explains. Her job was to assemble all the on-the-record material about Watergate and the Final Days -- an assignment that led to some tense moments with the former President. But she does not regret the experience (she and Nixon still correspond regularly): "I knew that being out there with him was going to be a seminar the likes of which...
Contestants in the hero game had to produce results to keep their wealthy backers interested, and Herbert makes it clear that Peary feigned a "farthest north" record at about the time Cook, astonishingly, was counterfeiting a first ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley). To what degree Peary admitted to himself that he was a fraud is unknown. So is the extent to which Matthew Henson, his unswerving black assistant, understood the fudging. Herbert writes sympathetically of all these voyagers, whose real accomplishments were extraordinary. They were married to the Arctic, and perhaps the truth of the matter was that if they...
...trade deficit, by suppressing the American appetite for imported goods. So far, that has not happened. The Government announced last week that the trade deficit swelled to $10.2 billion in May, up from $8.3 billion in April. Especially troubling was a 4.3% rise in imports, to a record $40.7 billion, which suggested that foreign brand names remain a powerful enticement for U.S. shoppers...