Word: units
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...provisions: that all orders for covert operations be written and made available to National Security Council members, including the Secretaries of State and Defense; that Congress be told of all private individuals assisting in such activities; that all covert actions be subject to annual review. The House Intelligence unit is working on a similar agreement. But Oklahoma Democrat David Boren, chairman of the Senate committee, conceded that the new accord was not an "absolute, airtight insurance policy" against Iran-contra-style capers...
...display instead was the B-1B bomber, a dark and menacing $285 million war machine. The B-1B, designed to travel to its target through hostile combat environments, demonstrated only one flaw: its engines refused to start when the aircraft was scheduled to leave Le Bourget. A special power unit had to be flown from West Germany to get the bomber going...
...part of his move toward the mainstream, Roberts in 1968 left the Pentecostal Holiness Church and joined the United Methodist Church. Lately, the Methodists have become increasingly vexed about Roberts' drift toward eccentricity and sensationalism. The regional Methodist unit in Oklahoma has asked the church's Judicial Council to decide who should supervise a "local elder" such as Roberts -- the regional unit or the local congregation. Anti- Roberts rumblings are spreading across the denomination. Last month delegates representing 104,000 Methodists in western Tennessee condemned his fund raising as "offensive, inappropriate and objectionable" and "harmful to the reputation...
...original purpose of the 12-year oldContinuing Education program was "to create anumbrella unit under which to place non-traditionalprograms" such as the Extension School, the Centerfor Life-Long Learning, the Summer School, and theInstitute for Learning in Retirement, Shinagelsaid...
...being, weighing merely a pound, enters the world with premature haste. His lungs are too rudimentary to admit vital air, his kidneys too weak to cleanse blood. Neonatologists, nurses and technicians descend, stabilizing his heartbeat and temperature, blanketing him in plastic and whisking him off to the intensive-care unit...