Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fever at a time when real-life economic problems like the trade deficit are getting worse. Says Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn: "If the reality doesn't get better but the myth becomes more and more insane, then the correction is going to be more and more violent." While no direct tie exists between stock-market crashes and depressions, a shattering of Wall Street's confidence would deliver a sharp psychological blow to the rest of the population. Adds Rohatyn: "People will only wake up when one morning they see the stock market unwinding by 150 points in the first...
Robertson rapidly moved toward the mystical, perceiving frequent and direct instructions from heaven. Dede, a Roman Catholic, was concerned that her husband was displaying "schizoid tendencies." Their firstborn Timothy was a toddler, and she was pregnant with the second of their four children, when Robertson felt called to a religious retreat in Canada. She begged him by letter to return: "I need you desperately." Robertson was troubled. "Was this God telling me to go home," he recalls wondering, "or was it Satan?" After prayer, he wrote to his wife, "I can't leave. God will take care of you." Tension...
Still, there was cause to worry that the cease-fire scheduled for Nov. 7 would not hold. Since the signing of the Guatemala accord, the five Presidents have had little direct contact. The first meeting of the group's foreign ministers ended in chaos, and the second, held last week in Managua, resulted in little progress. Already there is talk of a "one-up, one-down" outcome, meaning that the provisions of the plan may prove effective in Nicaragua but not in El Salvador, or vice versa...
Without mentioning names, John Paul continued his tough tone by taking direct aim at liberal moral theologians like Father Charles Curran, who is fighting his ouster from the Catholic University of America. Theologians, the - Pontiff said, must be subject to church authority, and bishops should make clear that "dissent and confrontation" are not acceptable from church scholars. John Paul also urged the prelates to step up efforts to "safeguard and promote" doctrinal orthodoxy at church-affiliated colleges...
...testing that goes beyond the narrow interpretation of the ABM treaty. The provision, offered by Armed Services Committee Chairman Sam Nunn, is tied to the $302 billion defense authorization bill. Similar language is included in the House version of the military spending bill. Both are seen as a direct challenge to the President's plans to move ahead with SDI, and Reagan has threatened to veto the defense budget rather than accept the congressional interference...