Word: use
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...checkered pasts. Harvard and the Kennedy School should not have forgotten their liberal natures once again by making an institutional link with a body as reprehensible as the CIA. Under the terms of the agreement, the CIA will fund a $1.2 million, three-year Kennedy School study assessing the use to which policymakers put the agency's intelligence information. The funding also will pay for special two-week "executive training sessions," presumably modeled after other "executive training sessions" for government officials ranging from bureacrats in the Education Department to Air Force colonels, that the K-School will hold once...
...said Richard E. Pipes. Frank B. Baird Jr. professor of history and an expert on the Soviet Union. Pipes said the Soviets have agreed to this reduction mainly because they are building new weapons such as the SS-24 missile. which makes those nuclear arms being eliminated not as useful to them. and frees them to use the treaty to "make a good impression...
...year in which the ubiquitous "character issue" has taken on as much importance as positions on arms control and the deficit, Simon has made good use of his off-beat image, which he advances as evidence of authenticity and personal integrity. After the scandals on Wall Street and in the White House, many voters, especially the legions of Democrats who now rue the day they voted for Reagan, are looking not for the most attractive and articulate candidate but rather for the candidate whom they perceive as the most trustworthy, the most genuine. That's where Paul Simon comes...
...easy being general manager. You have to figure out who to use, when to use him, and how much you will have to give up for him. But it's a job that I, and any other baseball fan would give an arm--or at least a sore...
...afford to give up the veteran? Where will he hit in the lineup? Will he break the rotation, or will we use him in the bullpen? Will that rookie be as good as he's supposed...