Word: directer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...global force, met with no success in its efforts to prevent a Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia. The Soviet Union, despite its nearly one million troops on the Chinese border, was unable to prevent China's openly announced punitive expedition into Viet Nam. The U.S. lost its own direct influence in Indochina in 1975 when the remnants of the once mighty American presence there abandoned the crumbling citadel of Saigon...
...Rand, becoming a captain was the direct result of having switched from alpine racing to the nordic events during his freshman year. He raced slalom, giant slalom and some cross-country through his high school years at Lincoln-Sudbury and a post-graduate year at Northfield Mount Hermon...
...Hyde Park liberal organizer named Don Rose, now considered a traitor by the all-but-dead lakefront independent movement. Byrne was Daley's loyal hand-maiden--willing to sing his praises more loudly and obsequiously than even the most seasoned of ward-heelers. It was she who helped direct the late Mayor's infamous infiltration of dissident groups. When Daley was alive, she was a terror; her acid-tongued remarks stung any who didn't toe the party line. When Daley died, Byrne, who had made few friends in the Machine aside from the boss, lost it all. Bilandic finally...
...help Mexico create jobs for its citizens in a number of ways. It could, for example, relax trade restrictions on goods with high labor costs. It could also give direct financial support to Mexican-run programs like PIDER, which has been phenomenally successful in creating jobs and improving living conditions in the poorest rural areas, which are the main source of illegal immigrants...
...committee will not direct K-School policies but will try to suggest creative methods of handling the Engelhard issue and other problems, Lee said. She added that K-School officials are not prepared to deal with other controversies. "If another problem came, it would hit them in the face," she said...