Word: directer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solve any social problems - those at home or abroad. More over, Americans of 1977 often seem confused, in the words of one scholar, "as to where and in what way American power and intelligence can be most usefully applied." The words are those of a man who happened to direct the Marshall Plan in Europe in 1950-51 - Professor Milton Katz, now director of international legal studies at Harvard Law School. Katz nonetheless believes that granted the recovery of trust and some clear sense of national purpose, the country could still match the great deeds of the postwar...
...that population would soon outstrip available food supplies. Beckerman does admit to a certain pessimism about the next ten years. He fears unnecessarily slow growth, and blames politicians who deal with inflation by strangling economic expansion. The solution is not to stop growth, he says, but to use and direct it better...
Paul Dietz, a slender youth in wire-rimmed glasses, loves war games of all kinds-from World War II platoon fights to dungeons and dragons. Says he: "I like to look at the mistakes commanders made in the past, as an intellectual exercise." Colin Camerer has a more direct interest in combat, since he lists as his main concerns "business and power." He adds: "Someone's going to be making decisions, and frankly I want to be there." Eugene Stark, by contrast, has a more modest policy: "I try to appear as normal as possible. If you go around...
...South Africans were, as one U.S. participant put it, "very, very direct" in their rejection of Mondale's proposals, and seemed genuinely stunned by some of his remarks. "I'm prepared to be hanged for what I am," Vorster told the press, "but I'll be damned if I'll be hanged for what I am not." Like Vorster, Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha implied that Washington had tried to push too far. "If the U.S. demands from us a political formula that means our own destruction, then we will say no," he declared...
Most of the time, Lucas would not direct the actors in the sense of telling them what to do, and at first this bothered some of them. "George directs like...