Word: consulted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps Reagan believes that in the last six months drug users have reproduced themselves at a rate previously unknown to mankind. If so, he would do well to consult the National Institute on Drug Abuse, an organization that would inform him that the use of almost every major drug has remained steady or has declined in the past two years...
SASC issues a 48-page report criticizing a proposed University program to send Harvard students on internships to South Africa. The activist group urged the program's planners to consult more Black South Africans and to structure the internships so as to benefit the Black majority population there...
Tisch had no real master plan in building his empire, no carefully crafted long-term strategy to consult. He just looked for good deals, an elusive goal for many corporate chiefs. In the late 1960s, Tisch started playing the takeover game. His first catch was Lorillard, maker of Kent and True cigarettes. In 1968 Loews acquired the company in a friendly deal, but soon after the merger was completed, Tisch, taking an active hand, forced out the company's chief executive. No sense in sitting back and watching an acquisition turn sour, he believed. Lorillard profits subsequently showed stronger growth...
Flamboyantly garbed in a white cloak, purple shirt and black jacket, Gaddafi paused at one point during his speech to allow young Libyan women dressed in battle fatigues to chant cheerleader-style, "Down, down, U.S.A." Announcing that he planned to consult with his Libyan "people's committees" about withdrawing from the nonaligned, he called the summit a mere exchange of courtesies. "We meet," he said. "We eat together, we travel long distances and laugh together. In the cause of freedom we should not be nice to each other...
...with the leaders of six other Commonwealth nations. The summiteers will also dine at Buckingham Palace, where all ears will be cocked to hear what the Queen has to say. Although she never airs her political opinions publicly, it is her royal prerogative, and indeed her constitutional duty, to consult with her Prime Ministers...