Word: towering
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...over the Persian Gulf. I remember telling my buddies about a Harvard class on Latin America that described how the U.S. manipulated Central American governments and delivered them to the hands of right-wing dictators. Rather than confront the argument, we concluded that my professor was a typical ivory-tower, America-hater who either embellished the story or left out crucial information that vindicated...
Eliot, Dunster and Mather Houses all saw renovation work during recent months, including newly painted walls and wood work repair, said Michael N. Lichten, director of physical operations for FAS. In addition to cosmetic work, new fire sprinklers were also installed in the Mather tower...
Eliot, Dunster and Mather Houses all saw renovation work during recent months, including newly painted walls and wood work repair, said Michael N. Lichten, director of physical operations for FAS. In addition to cosmetic work, new fire sprinklers were also installed in the Mather tower...
...currently troubled Donald Trump has allegedly paid his Genovese dues, perhaps unwittingly. Last month Trump took the stand in Manhattan's federal court to deny that he knowingly hired 200 illegal Polish aliens to demolish a building in Manhattan in 1980 to make way for his glittering Trump Tower. Members of Housewreckers Local 95, who also accuse their own president in the scheme, allege that Trump was able to avoid making payments that would now total $1 million (including interest) into the union's pension funds. % "You can bet there was a wise guy somewhere in the background," says...
That expertise will come in handy as the $30 billion-a-year intelligence community budget is retargeted to accommodate a changed world. But the community's crucial task in the years ahead, says Harvard Sovietologist Richard Pipes, "will involve the proper interpretation of political, economic and social intelligence." The Tower group "is going to be great when it comes to helping us verify arms reductions," says Moynihan. "But what we are really going to need to know is whether the Soviet Communist Party is going to implode, and how we can compete in the 21st century as other nations play...