Word: directing
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...emotional, and the inevitable temptation is to lean on cliches and pick a scapegoat. The auto companies for years have blamed the driver, pointing to the National Safety Council's estimate that 85% of all accidents result from careless driving. Psychologists agree that driving is a direct extension of the human personality, reflecting tendencies to care, compassion, aggression or even suicide. Lately, however, some polemicists have been trying to place all the blame on the machines, not on the man. Most conspicuous among these is Lawyer Ralph Nader, who gained attention at last week's congressional hearings because...
What most annoyed Mobutu, though, was something much more direct: "It has been said that Parliament will annul the ordinances that I have decreed since November. Therefore I am forced to take the decision not to permit Parliament to discuss either the laws I have passed or the laws I shall pass in the future." Last week, as good as his word, Mobutu stripped the legislators of everything but their salaries-and the occasional right of rubber-stamping his constitutional amendments. And, as he had warned, unless they stopped their political intrigues, he could close Parliament altogether. "This," said Mobutu...
John Munger, the director of the Dunster House production of the Frogs would be very happy to direct at the Loeb because the technical facilities are so much better...
Supranational Thinking. Esso Europe is envisioned, however, as a lot more than a talent pool or an experiment in international living. Campbell will control Jersey's European budgeting, marketing and long-range planning. He will direct such supranational Esso activities as its interest in the new Trans-Alpine Pipeline, will even venture into high policy in such matters as contacts with the European Common Market about the new six-nation energy policy that the Common Market is developing...
Surely it would have been possible to direct the contributions toward a more limited topic. Perhaps the magazine could have concentrated on a discussion of Rhodesia and South Africa, the plans and prospects for African unity, or the pattern of military coups revealed recently in Nigeria and Ghana. Instead the reader is confronted with all of these problems, plus an attempt to describe a comprehensive United States policy toward the entire African continent...