Word: role
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Meanwhile, the Soviet Union has become more willing to accept such % solutions, including ones that require sending Sergeant Hernandez home from Angola. Secretary of State George Shultz last week commented privately to Western diplomats that the Soviets have played what he called "a remarkably constructive role" in southern Africa and elsewhere...
...their part, coaches have a dual role. They must win games while at the same time making sure their athletes stay on top of their academic work. And that is not always an easy task. "I'm sure there are guys coaching who say it should be easier to coach at Harvard than at other places," men's basketball coach Peter Roby says...
Last week the public learned that its appetite for a complete explanation of the affair -- and a judgment of who was at fault -- will probably go forever unfulfilled. After spending nearly 25 months and an estimated $13 million investigating North's role in the illegal diversion of profits from a secret Iranian arms sale to the Nicaraguan contras, Walsh suddenly moved to drop the most serious charges against the former National Security Council staffer. The independent counsel's action made it all but certain that the total dimensions of the scandal will never be aired in court...
Besides barring demonstrably dangerous drugs, the E.C. is preventing importation of many benign compounds that play a significant role in the U.S. cattle industry. For nearly 30 years, American feedlot operators have promoted weight gain in young steers and heifers by giving them implants of natural and synthetic animal hormones, including testosterone and progesterone...
...mass terror during the 1930s and functioned until his death in 1953. According to Western historians, the amnesty may apply to as many as 20 million people, a large number of them posthumously. Another post-Stalinist landmark: the weekly magazine Literaturnaya Gazeta published a detailed account of the role played by the dictator's secret police in the 1940 assassination of his exiled rival Leon Trotsky, finally acknowledging that the killer was acting on Stalin's orders...