Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Doyle says Flynn owes much of his popularity to his 16 years of public office as a city councilor and then as mayor. He says the local news media have also helped Flynn address his constituency. "It just goes to show that a direct connection with the people yields grassroots support," says Doyle...
Ginsburg, nominated by President Reagan to succeed retired Justice Lewis Powell on the court, apparently did not violate criminal conflict of interest laws because the company in which he invested was not a direct party to the case even though it could benefit from the ruling...
...author firmly opposes euthanasia, however, which involves active steps toward direct killing. And he would have doctors provide the elderly with greater relief of their suffering and more home care and support. He would also increase medical resources devoted to defective newborns, the now hopeless victims of AIDS or any nonaged patient with slim chances of recovery. "A 35-year-old has not had a chance to live out a full life-span," he says. "Some research may come along in time to save them -- we don't know that they are all going to die." Callahan carefully avoids setting...
...frustrated by the non-growth of otherchurches, the sense that they were all preachingthe same tired, mellowed out Christianity and thatthey had departed from the Scriptures," Shepherdsays. Shepherd went on to stress that evangelizingwas "a direct command of Christ," and that memberswho did not evangelize were by definition badChristian in the Church's view...
...said, "The measures I am directing are a direct result of the Iranian government's own actions, including its unprovoked attacks on U.S. forces and U.S. merchant vessels...