Word: directed
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...Various plans would earmark the money for Springfest, student groups or a new sound system for the council to lend to student groups. Another proposal would have the council make a symbolic donation toward a new student center. Students deserve to participate in this debate and should have a direct say in which option the council chooses...
With the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air and Water Acts in 1972, giant corporate polluters knew the American public would no longer tolerate direct pollution anymore. Since then, they have changed their style--but not their substance. They have participated in a surreptitious media war, bypassed several federal laws, intensely lobbied Congress for loopholes and maliciously forced citizens to choose between humans and animals. The culmination was the 1994 Republican revolution when conservative leaders tried to repeal the Endangered Species Act, open national parks to logging and mining, and deregulate disposal of hazardous wastes...
...With the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air and Water Acts in 1972, giant corporate polluters knew the American public would no longer tolerate direct pollution anymore. Since then, they have changed their style--but not their substance. They have participated in a surreptitious media war, bypassed several federal laws, intensely lobbied Congress for loopholes and maliciously forced citizens to choose between humans and animals. The culmination was the 1994 Republican revolution when conservative leaders tried to repeal the Endangered Species Act, open national parks to logging and mining, and deregulate disposal of hazardous wastes...
...positive sign in some emerging countries like Korea and Thailand is that foreign direct investment--the purchase of actual assets for long-term development--is robust as multinationals scoop up bargains. But in Russia, says Marshall Goldman, associate director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard, "there's no bottom fishing at any price. It doesn't make sense if after you've gotten there you get squeezed and discover you have no rights." Moscow is finally pushing an agreement to share energy revenues with foreign companies that are desperately needed to develop this sector, but that still...
...extent that De Hooch made allegories of virtue at all, he certainly didn't try to shove them down the viewer's throat. His morality was all sympathy; he wasn't in any direct way a preacher. But in a time and place that put the strongest emphasis on the idea of the ordered, tranquil family as the basis of a just society, his visions of domesticity had a distinct symbolic point. Disorder, in the real world outside or the formal one inside his paintings, repelled him. Everything in his interiors is swept, garnished. De Hooch epitomizes the Dutch obsession...