Word: directed
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...Northern Ireland Assembly to gum up the works. "They say they're out to defend the Union," says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. "But that's just a coded way of saying they're going in to try and put a stop to all of this and maintain direct rule from London. So while assembly elections are supposed to be about the real local issues, it's still a campaign between the referendum 'yes' and 'no' votes." From the point of view of stopping Paisley's subversion plan, that may not be a bad thing...
...churning creates heavy costs for employers. Reich and Fromstein both observe that employers have been inventive in finding "flexible" ways to reward workers without increasing fixed-wage costs. They are paying out relatively more in bonuses, commissions, stock options and other pay-for-performance schemes and relatively less in direct wages...
...original opera-comique version, in which the dialogue is spoken rather than sung, and a refreshingly colloquial English translation by Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof). Updated it was, but dumbed down it wasn't. Assaf made her dramatic points with crisp simplicity and no pandering whatsoever. No less direct was the Carmen of mezzo-soprano Suzanna Guzman, a fire-eating singing actress who played straight to the video cameras, giving a devastatingly sexy performance full of anger and pride. It all added up to a no-nonsense Carmen that anybody could believe...
...ruling. In fact, Bolick says his group would support an appeal of the Wisconsin decision even though it won below. But Barry Lynn, of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, says voucher backers are celebrating too soon. The current conservative court has never endorsed the kind of direct state funding of religious institutions that a school voucher represents. "Every parochial school is first and foremost a ministry," says Lynn. "The court has moved, but it hasn't moved that...
...tentative talks broken off in 1995. They will probably do so before the end of this year, but they have different agendas. Taiwan is ready for agreements on such issues as fisheries, illegal immigration and drug smuggling; Beijing is eager to get right into such tough topics as direct air and sea links and steps toward unification...