Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...envoys are needed to override Communist apparatchiks who still control many localities and would otherwise block any changes. More generally, his supporters contend that Yeltsin, faced with the surviving party apparatus and a divided, if not splintered, parliament, must in effect initiate reforms by decree. But to opponents the * dispatch of the namestniki smacks of an old czarist practice. The parliament consequently wants them replaced by locally elected administrators; Yeltsin fears that many of those elected will be Communists, who are better organized than the democrats. Parliament refuses to postpone local elections, Yeltsin has vetoed its election bill...
...agency's middle name is Intelligence, which Webster (Noah, not William) defines as "the faculty of understanding." A crucial task of a CIA analyst is to figure out what is happening in some corner of the globe so that if the President decides to dispatch American diplomats, aid officials, Marines or spooks, he will know what he, and they, are getting into, and what the consequences are likely...
...chauffeur-driven Oldsmobile (he buys American and uses a cellular phone) pulls up to the curb in front of the eight-story brownstone, where staff members, still harboring paranoia left over from the days when the FBI tapped their lines and read their mail, answer the phone "4994" and dispatch envelopes without the party's name. Once in the building, Hall, a four-time presidential candidate, climbs into a creaky elevator for the slow ride to the top floor and its glass cases of dusty party memorabilia. In his office, he settles into a black recliner behind his desk...
...stay out of the way. Since the early 17th century, nations have been conducting commerce on the theory that lower tariffs mean lower prices for consumers, higher profits for merchants and greater prosperity for all. Countries that are busily shipping goods across their borders may be less likely to dispatch armies. And opening markets to imports is a way of opening societies to ideas...
...ingredient in the Vietnam-era defoliant Agent Orange, can cause epidemics of cancer. But Vernon Houk, the federal official who recommended the Times Beach evacuation, is no longer sure. Recent studies suggest that the chemical may not be so dangerous. In an interview with the St. Louis Post- Dispatch, Houk declared, "We should have been more up front with the Times Beach people and told them, 'We're doing our best with the estimates of the risk, but we may be wrong.' I think we never added 'but we may be wrong...