Word: directer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never implemented this plan, for fear of hostile replies and/or crosschecks into nearby marble pillars. So on I went to Plan B: the direct approach...
Besides any direct earnings from the films, JVC hopes to get new programming that it can sell on videocassettes. Company officials also want to learn more about the movie business, possibly as a prelude to buying a major film studio. Says Gordon: "They have no experience in the business and regard this as their tuition...
...would have invaded by now." This time, most Western analysts are convinced, Moscow will allow Poland to try a pluralistic approach -- as long as the new, Solidarity-led government honors its pledge not to leave the Warsaw Pact. "As long as Gorbachev is in power, there will be no direct interference," predicted Hartmut Jaeckel, a Polish specialist at the Free University of Berlin...
There is not much the watching world can do to stop it. Bitterly stung by previous attempts to serve as a buffer among Lebanon's feuding militias, Europe and the U.S. steered clear of direct intervention, appealing instead for a campaign of international pressure to quiet the guns. The U.N. Security Council urged an immediate cease-fire. Pope John Paul II blamed Damascus for "genocide." But the pleas had little impact on a situation that is governed by passion and irrationality. Unless a cease-fire can be brokered quickly, Syria and its allies might risk an all out assault...
...poking in the hot ashes. Nearby a little boy was playing with a football -- all he had saved. The bodies of 14 horses were smoking and smelling in the street. Twenty feet from them were the bodies of ten people who had sought refuge in a dugout -- a direct...