Word: springs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Local elections scheduled in the spring throughout the Soviet Union involve multiple candidates and for the first time offer serious challenges to entrenched officials...
...past he is unwilling to talk about and a present that consists of convincing mysterious clients that he has plenty of influence. Spence would probably still be throwing dinners at the posh Four Seasons Hotel for people like Donald Gregg, U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, as he did last spring, if the police had not raided a male prostitution service in February. The raid turned up thousands of dollars' worth of credit-card receipts signed by Spence. Though he was not the only Washington figure to use the service (the Washington Times, which broke the story, says some White House...
...Everybody who talked about HUD knew there was money to be made," says Republican political consultant David Keene. Despite recurring gossip about payoffs and even some hard evidence, the nation's best TV news organizations, newspapers and newsmagazines -- including TIME -- failed to report the corruption at HUD until last spring, when an internal investigation jump-started the story. The entire episode says a great deal about shortcomings in the way the press covers Government. "Somebody, an editor or a reporter, should have said, 'Where is the money going?' " says Bob Woodward, assistant managing editor of the Washington Post...
Harvard emerged from its two-year master planning process--which culminated this spring when the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) approved the University's plan--as something of a model for other institutions, according to PZAC members...
COPS (Fox, July 15, 8 p.m. EDT). Glasnost reached another milestone last spring, when the producers of this documentary-style series about real cops were allowed to follow a group of Soviet policemen. Two weeks of shooting resulted in this special one-hour episode...