Word: directed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council also held a hearing to discussing licensing of Cambridge taxicabs and the distinction between cabs and livery services. Walsh introduced a resolution asking the city manager to direct Chief of Police Anthony Paolillo to review why Boston taxis are picking up fares in Cambridge...
...there you have it folks. Direct from Valdez, Alaska, Dawn really does "take grease out of your way." Twenty dollars says that it will be only a matter of weeks before the Madison Avenue ad agency in charge of the Dawn account gets a hold of these quotes and we see a new nation-wide Dawn media blitz...
...Fair Housing Act, Frank said, makes it illegal to refuse to sell or rent to an AIDS carrier unless it can be proven the person would be a direct threat to the health of others. The Grove City Bill makes it unlawful for the recipient of federal funds to discriminate against an AIDS carrier in matters of unemployment, housing, and human services...
Gorbachev's opponents are equally aware that much is at stake. The Soviet tradition of unity among all leaders still forbids any direct criticism of Gorbachev's policies. Such debate as does occur is carried on in Aesopian language, and history is currently the favored supplier of code words. Thus when Yegor Ligachev and other conservatives cry that denunciations of Stalin are shaking people's faith in the Soviet system, they are really saying that perestroika and glasnost are going too far. Gorbachev's partisans get the point, and respond with redoubled attacks on Stalin and his admirers today...
...highly unusual public apology, published as an advertisement in TIME and about 100 other magazines and newspapers, Exxon Chairman L.G. Rawl promised that his company not only will pay all direct cleanup costs but "also will meet our obligations to all those who have suffered damage from the spill." Under federal law, the company must pay the first $14 million in cleanup costs, then can tap a fund set up by the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Act for an additional $86 million...