Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...associates say, was that he spent too much time playing a defensive game. He got into fights with Senators over minor items in the $28 billion intelligence budget and gave out meager punishments to officials who had ignored warning signs that agent Aldrich Ames was a Soviet mole. Even worse, large parts of the CIA's operation bored Woolsey, and its insular culture frustrated him. He once complained to an associate that the agency "needed a psychiatrist, not a manager." Senior agency hands were miffed when he put a cipher lock on the door to his already heavily guarded office...
...dealings (as found in the November issue of Mother Jones magazine) are particularly troubling. Military contractors now generate 25 percent of their revenue from foreign arms sales. From 1988 to 1993, the U.S. share of global arms agreements shot up from 17 percent to 70 percent, partly because the Soviet Union's strong competition disappeared...
...impact on the world has already been enormous, ranging from the global to the personal. He has covered more than half a million miles in his travels. Many believe his support of the trade union Solidarity in his native Poland was a precipitating event in the collapse of the Soviet bloc. After he was nearly killed in 1981, he visited and pardoned his would-be assassin in jail. Asked an awed Mehmet Ali Agca: "Tell me why it is that I could not kill you?" Even those who contest the words of John Paul do not argue with his integrity...
...accounting for his actions, Hanselman added that he wanted to quell Harvard's reputation as the "Kremlin by the Charles." He clearly hasn't been reading his history books. When did the Soviet Union ever scrimp on he military? If Hanselman wanted to enhance possibilities for military service, perhaps he should have taken a cue from the Kremlin and proposed conscription...
...know it's illegal to pray. When they learn that a 10-year-old boy in St. Louis was put in detention for saying grace privately over his lunch, they think that's bizarre . . . That's what we used to think of Russian behavior when they were the Soviet Union...