Word: tasked
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...Plains, N.Y., and, most recently, publisher and CEO of the Detroit News. "TIME," he says, "has always been an icon for me -- the source. It was a thrill to be asked to join the flagship." Although all publishing is competitive, he adds, "the biggest challenges here are ideas. Our task is to go into the next century as relevant and essential to our readers...
...hold on to the Soviet Union's most strategically and economically valuable ally now that all the satellites have been freed from their confining orbits, Gorbachev warned that "any attempt to extract selfish benefits from these events ((is)) fraught with chaos." Kohl's next and far more difficult task is to convince Gorbachev -- and many who silently think like him -- that chaos is just what his plan will avert...
Soviet officials are already meeting in Moscow on a deepening crisis in Afghanistan as, 5,000 miles away in Washington, members of an American task force are rushed by police escort to the Old Executive Office Building. The U.S. President and Vice President have been disabled by a poison-gas attack. The Americans receive an intelligence briefing suggesting that maverick Soviet agents, seeking to undermine Mikhail Gorbachev and his international peace offensive, may have been behind the assassination attempt...
...still and take the punishment. Unlike in China and in Algeria, where in the past year peaceful demonstrations were broken up by a hail of gunfire and murder, the Israelis are reacting to the violent protests with considerable restraint. Dealing with such protests is a very difficult, but necessary, task that can never be done "peacefully." That is not to say that no abuses have occurred, but what can one really expect when every day for a period of two years 20,000 soldiers have battled violent demonstrators. Anytime that that many people are in a combat situation for such...
...housing issue. I expect that Dean Jewett will also find the issue too complex to deal with and will turn it over to President Bok. The only higher authority than Bok at Harvard is God, but God has a tendency towards order. God will probably leave the task to entropy, the only natural process of randomization in the world...