Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed unreal," he recalled. "I couldn't believe that people would want to do this . . . I went away puzzled and distressed." While Shultz thought Reagan was leaning toward such sales, he again was not told that the President just a day earlier had signed a new finding authorizing future direct U.S. arms sales to Iran. Shultz would not learn of these sales until the story broke the following November...
...post--which received a name change, from Director of Personnel to Director of Human Resources--Petti will be responsible for all central management planning, Scott said. Petti will be in charge of working with departments to develop goals and implement them, and will direct hiring, promotion, development planning and compensation planning, Scott added...
...dignitaries could hardly overlook the ironies and injustices embedded in the Constitution. Philadelphia Congressman William H. Gray, who is black, recalled that one direct legacy of the Great Compromise was the provision demanded by sparsely populated Southern states that each slave be counted as three-fifths of a person for purposes of representation. "But because the framers knew the inevitability of justice . . ." said Gray, "this nation has made such progress...
Opposition Leaders Kim Dae Jung and Kim Young Sam pronounced themselves unhappy with the new slate. Chun's selections, they complained, are still too attached to the Establishment to preside fairly over a referendum on direct election of the President and the subsequent national elections expected later this year. Given those feelings, it is just as well that neither of the opposition Kims is kin to Prime Minister...
...Chun's classmate at South Korea's military academy (class of 1955), political protege and handpicked candidate for President in national elections to be held late this year. It was Roh who had electrified the nation two weeks ago by recommending the program of democratic reforms, including the direct election of the next President, that was later endorsed by Chun. The President paid tribute to Roh "for having made the courageous decision that has given all our citizens a refreshing jolt and has greatly enhanced their pride...