Word: post
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Politicking for the presidency of the Russian Federation is now a hot topic in Moscow. Many think that post will be more important in a few years than the presidency of a fractionated U.S.S.R. More and more Russians are saying perhaps their republic should secede. They are only one-quarter joking...
...CAPTION: Post-Pauley Syndrome
...part of a post-cold war reordering of national priorities, a broadening of the definition of national security is apt. But so is at least a passing doubt about extending a frame of mind that in the past has not always aroused the nation's noblest instincts -- as the derivative term security risk can chillingly remind those who were around in the late '40s and the '50s. Do we really want cold war-type anxieties and constitutional indelicacies to be applied in nonmilitary realms -- in the environmental area, for instance, where restraints might be far more intrusive than military protectiveness...
...string of degrees, co-editor of the Oxford edition of John Donne's prose. Can he run an institution? From 1969 to 1976 he was vice chancellor of the City University of New York and an impassioned leader of the successful drive for open admissions there. He left that post to become president of Georgetown University in Washington, presiding over the growth of the endowment from some $30 million to nearly $250 million. He is obviously a bricks-and-mortar man with formidable fund-raising smarts...
Henry said he believes he was chosen for the post because of his experience...