Word: directer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such security efforts notwithstanding, store owners know the Christmas rush will include a high quotient of thieves. Gerald Lauritzen, director of Southern California's Stores Protective Association, notes that 35% to 40% of the year's total loss from shoplifting occurs in the final quarter-the direct result, he says, of "increased traffic during the holidays...
...petitioning President Roosevelt, to accept a law-school scholarship. Now a vice president of the Burlington Northern Railroad, he persuaded the presidents of six Japanese shipping companies - all of whom he knows - to use Seattle as their U.S. port. That move created 3,100 jobs, $50 million in annual direct benefits for the region and helped make Seattle one of the nation's leading containership ports. Watanabe was among the first to urge Dixy Lee Ray to run for Governor, and is chairman of her board of economic advisers...
...send delegates to the Cairo summit, Israel has not indicated its next moves. Privately, many Israeli officials were delighted by what they believed was U.S. discomfiture at the rapid pace of developments and by a muting of Washington's role as mediator. The Israelis suspect that the new direct contacts between Cairo and Jerusalem make them less susceptible to pressure from Washington to negotiate on what they consider to be unfavorable terms at Geneva...
Crown Prince Fahd and King Khalid forgave and apparently forgot after Sadat sent a high-level emissary to soothe their wounded feelings. The Saudis expressed full understanding of Sadat's objectives and made it clear that they are not opposed to a direct Arab-Israeli dialogue. The Saudis, however, also explained that they could not publicly support Egypt's move lest they weaken the broad range of contacts they have laboriously built up all across the Arab world. They now are in a position to influence such disparate and often inimical regimes as Marxist South Yemen and Somalia...
When you step inside the "house," some parts of it are invisible: darkness laid into darkness. As the eyes adjust, so the forms gradually appear, and this gradual unfolding of complexity is very moving: one is a long way from the direct, all-at-once confrontation of most American sculpture. There is no way of seeing Mrs. N's Palace as a whole. It dis closes itself in time, and each passage of shapes is apt to erase and replace one's memory of its predecessor. In short, it aspires - to employ that gnomic phrase of Walter Pater...