Word: directer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crisis. However, it is not the place of the United States to legislate a solution to an international situation, especially one with as many complex historical and political facets as this. Peace in the region cannot be accomplished in a vacuum; it must be the result of direct negotiations between the parties involved. The United States should concentrate its efforts on facilitating these talks. Any attempt to circumvent the negotiation process or to impose a settlement is doomed to failure...
...them better: the national minimum wage has stayed at $3.35 an hour since 1981, while the cost of living has risen by a third. Modest financial help is already coming from some states. California raised its minimum wage to $4.25 an hour in July. Other states provide more direct assistance: New Jersey has prevented 12,000 families from being evicted over the past four years by providing loans and grants to help pay rents and mortgages...
...Labor, but this year some are looking farther left. Their defection could have a boomerang effect, swelling Likud's plurality at the expense of Labor. Three other leftist parties could account for as many as eight seats in the Knesset. Darawshe's new Arab Democratic Party, which calls for direct negotiations with the P.L.O., could pick up another. But he represents the only Arab party that Labor might stomach in a coalition...
...Citizens' Rights Movement is the left's answer to Tehiya, proposing direct talks with the P.L.O. and an end to the military occupation. It now holds five seats and may win up to eight. Party leader Shulamit Aloni, a former Labor member, has already informed Peres that she will join a Labor government if he adopts a more aggressive peace platform, perhaps to the point of agreeing to negotiate with a reformed P.L.O...
Fernandopulle, Stimpson and six other marshals will direct class social activities throughout the year and later as alumni. Seniors chose the two from 16 finalists selected earlier this month. One hundred and six students originally contended for the position...