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Whatever the degree to which Congress can be informed?and even critics of the CIA concede that it is tricky for legislators to be in on the decision-making of an espionage agency?there is a clear necessity for Congress to hold the Executive more accountable for what the CIA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTELLIGENCE: The CIA: Time to Come In From the Cold | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

The incident points to the biggest reason for recent bank troubles. There are other causes: growing public distrust of paper money, runaway world inflation, and the tricky task of absorbing and relending vast amounts of money flowing from newly rich oil-producing nations. But the main source of instability has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Devaluation of Faith | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

Meanwhile, HEW conducts a constant monitoring of the program, evaluating its progress largely by comparing the numbers of women and minorities actually hired with the numbers predicted in the plan. These numbers are a tricky business because they remind many people in universities of quotas, which make academics recoil in...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin and Nicholas Lemann, S | Title: Learning To Live With Hiring Reforms | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

Since administering the faculty is so tricky, it's always done by someone who is a faculty member himself--the current dean of the Faculty, Henry Rosovsky, is an Economics professor, and his three top assistants are career academics as well. But Rosovsky has more to worry about than just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Faculty | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

Incredibly enough, Killer might have been right. The portable scoreboard read WEISKOPF -3, ELDER - 1, and REGALADO -5! Somewhere along the way, Killer and his man had picked up two shots on par and three shots on Weiskopf. Still Weichers or Hill could easily be even with or ahead of...

Author: By Harry HURT Iii, | Title: The Real Victor Was a Cool Ole Killer | 8/20/1974 | See Source »

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