Word: extention
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inquiries without need for justification by issues of "national secuity;" and for permitting a wide range of "intelligence operations" stopping short, it seems, only of assassination. This last curious phrase raises several interesting general questions: is there a difference between legitimate intelligence-gathering and "intelligence operations?" And, to what extent can recent foreign policy debacles be attributed to "intelligence failures"; that is, to problems of incompleteness or inaccuracy of data...
...Church Committee revealed the extent to which intelligence agencies, primarily the Central Intelligence Agency, were involved in clandestine and covert relationships with both academic institutions and individual academics. In 1976 we said that the report confirmed that "...Universities and scholars have been paid to lie about the sources of their support, to mislead others, to induce betrayed confidences, to misstate the true objects of their interest, and to misrepresent the actual objectives of their work." At that time we asked the CIA to end its covert use of academic institutions and individual academics and to provide the same guarantee...
...some extent the experiment fulfilled its promise. Over the years enrollment grew from 8,000 to 32,000. Today more than 40% of the students hold full-time jobs outside class. But the school's open admissions policy and popular courses proved its undoing, for it attracted not just serious worker-students, but dropouts, misfits and foreigners (mostly Africans) who could not meet the regular standards in other French universities...
...deficits, and 2) to the extent that a cutback in driving reduces oil imports, the U.S. will make itself less vulnerable to petroleum price increases that the OPEC cartel may decree. But the fee will not spur all that much conservation: a reduction of only 100,000 bbl. a day the first year, by Carter's estimate, in petroleum imports that now average 8 million bbl. a day. In order to prompt really significant conservation, a gasoline tax on the order of the 50?-per-gal. bite that Republican John Anderson has been proposing might well be required...
Acid precipitation is apparently caused largely by sulfur dioxide emissions from coal-burning power plants, smelters and factories. To a lesser extent, nitrogen oxides from car exhausts and industry contribute to the problem. Rising high into the sky and borne hundreds of miles by winds, these chemicals mix and react with water vapor to form sulfuric and nitric acids. The acids then fall to earth in the form of rain or snow that can damage anything from monuments to living organisms. After a number of such rain showers or highly acidic snow melts, a lake's pH* can plunge...