Word: directed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some Soviets have objected to the provision of the reforms championed by Gorbachev. They give the party direct representation in the new assembly, which will chose legislators and elect the Soviet president...
...there a better way? In San Francisco in January, Energy Department scientists displayed a photograph of a DNA strand magnified a million times by a scanning tunneling microscope. It was the first direct image of the molecule. If sharper images can be made, the scientists suggested, it may be possible to read the genetic code directly. But that day seems very...
...F.M.L.N.'s top five comandantes, agrees. "If the military says no to our plan, then that indicates their intention of defeating us militarily," he says. "That would oblige us to respond, and the product would be a deepening of the war." Roberto, a veteran E.R.P. combatant is more direct: "If the elections are held March 19, our plan is to block them. This is a war to the finish between us and the oligarchs...
...Should the President of the Soviet Union be chosen by a direct, popular vote...
...contrast to the good manners of Cromwell, Rich and Henry VIII is the King's belligerent advisor, Cardinal Wolsey (David Condon), who takes a more direct tack in getting More to sanction the King's divorce. Condon stomps his fist on the table, puts out candles with his bare hands and barks out his lines in Sylvester Stallone fashion. Despite all of this activity, however, Condon's energies are in vain. He convinces neither More nor the audience with his overbaked histrionics. By contrast, Margaret Meserve, who plays the Spanish Catholic spy Signora Chapuys, could have borrowed...