Word: departments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...failure of the second Reagan Administration also was taking shape. The organization chart of key players and their new positions of power was being sketched. But there was no blueprint, no grand design. As if by whimsy, top officials were leaving Government, switching jobs or signaling their desire to depart. Each seemed free to pursue his own quest for personal fulfillment, whether by taking on new challenges, easing into less wearisome tasks or just taking a rest. The President amiably concurred in the wishes of his subordinates. It was a shake-up by the shakers themselves...
...Spartak, on tour in America since the beginning of December, will travel to Montreal this morning and then depart for Moscow
...reprise, I argued in my letter that the Final Clubs' role in the life of the College is inconsequential; that their discriminatory practices do no serious harm; and that it is puritanical, in that circumstance, to insist they change their ways or depart our midst. I implied that we all profit form having some among as who march to a different drummer. Laissez-faire. In his response, Stevens charges me with inconsistency, recalling, quite mistakenly, that three years ago I argued in favor of restricting the rights of homosexuals. Not so. Then, as now, I argued against restricting individual freedom...
Almost as fast as the newcomers arrive, others depart. Each day in Quiha, grieving parents wrap the bodies of their children in burlap parcels tied with string and carry them to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the neighboring village. There, as priests under bright umbrellas chant ageless prayers, the tiny bodies are placed in a long trench. And each dusk in Bati, when the sun burns red and fierce, four men carry bodies from the house of the dead up a steep hill to their common grave. -By Pico Iyer. Reported by James Wilde/Bati, with other bureaus
...dismantle the present parole system - a seven-member commission will set up a grading system for crimes, assigning penalties according to seriousness. Judges will be required to explain in writing any departure from the sentencing guidelines, while both prosecutors and defendants will be entitled to appeal sentences that depart from the standard. After a five-year period, parole will be phased out entirely. Under current law, 80% of criminals are paroled after serving one-third of their sentences. In the future, good behavior can earn only a 15% reduction of a sentence. U.S. Attorney Robert Bonner of Los Angeles hails...