Word: special
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...housing under a variety of HUD programs. My general operating procedure was to send each request to the appropriate staff at HUD with instructions to consider it carefully, and if the request met the necessary requirements, grant it; if not, deny it. No request was to be given any special advantage because it was submitted by a Republican or was in some way associated with a Republican. My decisions were based on facts, law and logic, not on political party...
...items as fried chicken and fresh-shucked oysters and clams. Manhattan's Water Club restaurant stopped delivering food on a regular basis after a one-month trial because, says owner Michael O'Keeffe, "fine meals have to be served a few moments after being cooked." Other restaurateurs have < devised special techniques to deal with the time lag. Some chefs undercook fish, for example, allowing it to continue heating in delivery trucks' warming ovens. Pierre Saint-Denis, chef-owner of Manhattan's Le Refuge, stabilizes his butter sauce with cream so it doesn't resemble a stagnant pool by the time...
Europe's new assertiveness poses a special challenge for Washington, which has long been accustomed to treating Western Europe as a junior partner, particularly when it comes to managing the global economy and East-West security. At last May's NATO summit meeting, President Bush asserted traditional U.S. leadership with his proposals for an accelerated timetable of reductions in conventional arms. But he was forced to bow to West German demands that the alliance postpone a decision on deploying a new U.S. tactical missile to modernize NATO's nuclear arsenal...
...operation went off with military precision. At about 6 p.m. Wednesday, officers from the Dijin, a police special-operations team, hustled Eduardo Martinez Romero out the back door of a maximum-security Bogota jail while other officers distracted reporters and photographers gathered in front. Martinez, wanted in Atlanta in connection with a $1.2 billion money-laundering scheme, was taken aboard a jet owned by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and flown to his long-postponed rendezvous with U.S. justice...
Georgene Herschbach, former director of Special Programs, became the new registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences--perhaps Harvard's most overworked and undernoticed administrator...