Word: secretes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bits and pieces of the Iran-contra scandal that have slowly leaked out have presented an unsettling image of Ronald Reagan's closest advisers: scheming, overreaching aides deliberately misleading one another while keeping an already out-of-touch President in the dark about their secret operations. That impression was reinforced last week with the release of a Senate Intelligence Committee report based on three weeks of hearings the panel held last December...
...press would have immediately hinted at the possibility of an American conspiracy. That was the case in the early postwar years when a poor harvest in the Ukraine was blamed on Americans who supposedly conspired to put Colorado beetles into the fields. But our press did not make a secret of Chernobyl. Those responsible for the tragedy have been identified. Chernobyl has been opened to foreigners, including the American Dr. Robert Gale...
...most Americans, the conservancy has in the ! past three decades bought hundreds of similarly fragile environments. From its headquarters in Arlington, Va., it now oversees a 2.61 million-acre empire that includes more than 1,000 species of threatened plants and animals. "We have been called the best-kept secret in conservation," says William Blair, TNC's president emeritus. "We are the largest private owner of land sanctuaries in the world, and we are either No. 1 or No. 2 in the amount of money we spend on conservation each year." Says U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Frank Dunkle...
What makes the interactive toys tick? That is top-secret information these days. Manufacturers have shrouded their new toys in a haze of high-tech mystery, partly to preserve the sense of wonder about the devices, but also to prevent rivals from making knockoffs. While the technology is nothing that will tip the balance between superpowers, each toy company has developed a creative scheme for linking the toys with TV shows via light beams or audio signals...
...remedy the situation, Gorbachev called on the party to approve a series of reforms that could bring about significant changes in the Soviet system. He proposed that local, republic-level and perhaps even national Communist Party officials be chosen from slates of more than one candidate and by secret ballot. He also suggested the election of factory managers by their workers. At the same time, Gorbachev made it clear that any such changes would not be permitted to interfere with strict Communist Party control, which he said will remain "unshakable." Said he: "The point at issue assuredly...