Word: directing
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Prime Minister Peres welcomed that small U.S. gesture as yet another indication that his cherished goal of direct peace talks with Hussein was on track. The Labor Party leader returned to Jerusalem after an eleven-day visit to New York, Washington and Western Europe, visibly buoyed by the Jordanian monarch's response to his Oct. 22 U.N. speech, in which Peres promised to go to Amman or "any location" to hold direct peace talks. Hussein had called the Israeli offer "a positive one in its spirit...
...latest U.S. plan is throw weight, a measure of the power of missiles to thrust warheads and guidance gear during an attack. The Soviets now have about 5.7 million kg of ballistic- missile throw weight, compared with the U.S.'s 2 million. The U.S. plan calls for substantial direct cuts in maximum throw weight in order to reduce the opportunity for "breakout," the ability of one side suddenly to increase its offensive capabilities...
...stereo delivery men, who claimed to hail from Montreal, said they didn't know who had sent them to Cambridge. They said the benefactor had paid cash for the six-piece system, which included a direct-drive turntable, a Dolby cassette deck, a graphic equalizer, an AM-FM receiver and two 80-watt speakers...
Even when the sales do not lead to direct eviction of current tenants by the new owner, the prices at which the University has offered these houses are so high that purchasers have to demand significantly higher rents, forcing current tenants to move elsewhere. Because owner-occupied houses with rental units are exempt from the city's rent control laws, tenants are left unprotected. As Harvard sells off these houses, occupants will be forced...
...Fionnula Flanagan, and how does she have the audacity to write, produce, and star in her own movie when she has the talent for none of these things? Why, furthermore, did Burgess Meredith (alias The Penguin) direct this play in New York, and why did it run longer than two days? And most of all, why does Flanagan insist on showing off her bestockinged legs, when there is so little to show off? These questions, like many Irish mysteries, can only be answered by some form of blarney, of which there is also plenty in this film...