Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Possibly the most sweeping and controversial sanction is the House-passed proposal that would give all American companies 180 days after the bill became law to get rid of all their assets in South Africa. This would involve disposal of what is now left of the $1.35 billion in direct holdings by 281 U.S. companies operating in that country at the end of 1985. American firms have been withdrawing at increasing rates: seven in 1984, 39 in 1985, 15 in just the first five months of this year...
...passed by a voice vote a sweeping bill that calls for the U.S. and most American companies to withdraw their assets from South Africa. The amendment, sponsored by California Democrat Ronald Dellums, gives companies 180 days to pack up and leave, a withdrawal that would involve $1.3 billion in direct investment. New loans would be halted and future trade prohibited, except for strategic minerals...
...past when the out-of-town driver, lost on Boston's streets, was a good joke," said the Boston Globe in a recent series on traffic. "That confused visitor, halted in the middle of an intersection, is likely to be the - direct cause of a traffic jam that extends several blocks . . . Get some signs up -- and make sure they are readable and make sense...
...concerns about propaganda. (Usually when the subject is Communism, a prudent station operator wants at least one panelist who will argue that Gorbachev is no better than a smiling Genghis Khan.) Which raises another question: Is the American public so susceptible to alien wiles that it cannot stand any direct exposure to reality that does not come carefully wrapped in ideological cautions...
...presidential draft has not succeeded in modern times. Never mind that the avenue presenting the fewest technical barriers for the campaign would be an awkward "national surrogate" strategy involving a stand-in who would go on the stump, presumably pressing palms and kissing babies for Iacocca. There is no direct precedent for a substitute enunciating the views of a silent and absent candidate. Such a campaign would draw close FEC scrutiny if it attempted to get federal financing...