Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration had hoped to free the CIA from controversy, stiff restrictions and stern oversight. Instead, the agency is saddled with a director whose every major move now seems likely to be carefully scrutinized and with morale problems resulting from its own internecine plotting. Getting back to its real work, the mission of forewarning the U.S. of its enemies abroad, may not come easily. -By Ed Magnuson...
...such troubles will seem far behind, however, when she takes to the open water, her hull a glimmering swath of royal blue, red and gold, with the royal coat of arms on the bow and the royal cipher on the stern. The yacht's 12,000-h.p. twin-shaft turbine engines are capable of propelling her 5,769 gross tonnage at a sprightly 21 knots. Her 510-ton fuel capacity can sustain a 2,800-mile voyage without stopover...
...think the contractors finally realized that we were very stern in our demands," Walsh said...
...seminars, articles in technical journals and a hard-hitting book, National Defense, by former Carter Speechwriter James Fallows, the reformers have developed a stern critique of how the Pentagon has been spending its dollars. They accuse U.S. military planners, among many other sins, of designing weapons that are marvels of electronic sophistication but break down
...trial judge, O'Connor was stern but fair. At least twice, colleagues recall, she advised defendants to get new attorneys because their lawyers had been unprepared. After a Scottsdale mother of two infants pleaded guilty to passing four bad checks totaling $3,500, she begged for mercy from O'Connor, claiming the children would become wards of the state. The father had abandoned the family. O'Connor calmly sentenced the middle-class woman to five to ten years in prison, saying, "You should have known better." But when she got back to her chambers she broke into...