Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crone, a U.S. citizen, testified that Costa Rican officials told him contra suppliers were running drugs, but the fearful witness refused to name names in public. In fact, Crone had pleaded to be allowed to give his testimony in private session. "I may be subject to some harassment from Mr. Hull in Costa Rica for the information I have given you," he explained. When asked outside the hearing room if he believed his life was in danger, Crone replied cryptically, "There have been those who have been killed or disappeared...
...said, however, that he has not begun fundraising for the first-ever tenured post in Indian history, adding that the subject matter has made it especially difficult for the University to solicit donations...
...paper sometimes proved disillusioning in reality, as foreign businessmen discovered they were expected to pay exorbitant hidden costs to local administrators for office space or to get by with a steady supply of electricity only four days a week. Foreign entrepreneurs also found that even the paper agreements were subject to loose interpretation by inexperienced Chinese partners. Says Martin Posth, a West German who is deputy managing director of Volkswagen's joint venture in Shanghai: "You need the right partner in the right area, and you need to examine the existing infrastructure. But the human factor is the real yardstick...
...first glance Nixon seems an unlikely subject, treated by an equally unlikely trio of Harvard graduates. Composer John Adams, 40, a minimalist of burgeoning popular appeal, had never written an opera before; Poet Alice Goodman, 29, had never written a libretto; and Director Peter Sellars, 30, was notorious for brassily upstaging the classics, setting Mozart's Don Giovanni in Spanish Harlem and Handel's Orlando partly on Mars...
...committees, acting jointly, launched their investigation 11 months ago. The final report has been through many drafts and has been subject to intensive scrutiny and debate inside the two committees...