Word: conducting
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Still, before any further decision is made on a new home for the Bikinians, the department will conduct its long-promised aerial radiation survey of all the areas in the Marshall Islands where nuclear devices were exploded, in order to determine which of the now peaceful islands are once again fit-truly-for human inhabitants...
...very least, the episode suggested that Jerusalem's conduct of the peace negotiations had raised as much doubt within the Begin government as among the prominent Israelis who have begun to criticize it. The latest indication of Begin's scant willingness to make the kind of concessions that a peace agreement will require was his insistence that U.N. Resolution 242's requirement for Israeli withdrawal does not include the West Bank -a position at variance with that held by every Israeli government since the resolution was passed...
Ethel Leginska became the first woman conductor-composer to write an opera and conduct it in a major opera house when her opera "Gale" was presented on November 23, 1935, by the Chicago City Opera Company...
Carr's conduct got him into as much trouble as his outspokenness. His high-handed handling of his staff produced a ceaseless round of firings and resignations. He acted like the ecumenical Pope of Africa, and grass-roots Christians complained that he paid scant attention to their opinions. Many took offense at the 1974 assembly's proclamation of a missionary-go-home policy (since downplayed) and its declaration of war against "theological conservatism...
...this point President Kyprianou promised them Cypriot passports and safe conduct to Athens in exchange for the hostages. In the course of negotiations, Kyprianou received two fateful overseas telephone calls. The first was from Arafat in Beirut. The P.L.O. leader was furious because a close aide was among the hostages. Arafat offered the services of a twelve-man squad of experienced gunmen. Kyprianou accepted and dispatched an airliner to Beirut to pick them up. The squad, armed with Soviet AK-47 submachine guns, was kept out of sight inside the terminal, waiting for a crack at the hijackers. Later, there...