Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrests, seize illicit drugs or even question suspects. Though formally attached to the U.S. embassy, they mainly work undercover with paid informers. Much of the time, they are relatively powerless. Says one enforcement officer: "Intelligence is the only game we play down here. For example, some Chicago families have direct links with the Durango Mafia. We listen to the street talk and occasionally we get a report that so many k's (kilograms) are coming up." At that point the Americans pass on the information to Mexican police and hope, often vainly, for the best. "It is not unknown," says...
...United States. Both economic and spiritual recovery from the Great Depression was almost complete. The American outcry for individual liberty was not, however, derived from the shared jubilation at the country's rebirth, but rather from voices of dissent which maintained that Roosevelt's new America stood in direct contrast to the Federalist fathers' notion of individualism...
...Theology is an activity going far deeper than the intent of church doctrine. It involves the orientation of symbols and concepts with which we seek to guide and direct our lives," said Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity Gordon D. Kaufman, who presided...
...Medical School, administrators introduced an interdisciplinary curriculum, called "New Pathways," as a direct response to Bok's concern that a medical education is not broad enough...
Having a middleman like Steiner deal with activists has helped Bok avoid direct confrontations. Last spring, for instance, Bok skirted the controversy surrounding a proposed internship program which would have sent Harvard students to work in educational institutions in South Africa...