Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issues that cause people to go out there and vote are the conservative issues: buses, taxes, abortion, defense," said Viguerie, 52, the direct mail maestro who founded the Conservative Digest...
...expulsion, which require approval from the full Faculty. But students complaining of violations of their rights had no independent authority to which they could appeal. The only formal channel for their complaints was the COI, a body whose function, according to the Handbook for Students, is to "re-direct [complaints] to the appropriate agency of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences" but which has "no power to make rulings...
Simplifying baseball's drug crisis, leaving out the weasel words anyway, Commissioner Peter Ueberroth made a direct plea to every major league player last week to volunteer for urinalysis. Throughout an unusual address, as amazing as any ever delivered in the cause of image repair, alarm bells were ringing: "Baseball is on trial." "Baseball is in trouble." "A cloud called drugs is permeating our game." "The shadow is growing larger and darker by the day." "Stop this menace." At risk and at stake are "a generation of kids" and "a decade of baseball being synonymous with drugs." "We cannot...
Despite the disclosures in Le Monde, however, direct proof of government involvement was missing. A major breakthrough came from Le Canard Enchaine. In its Sept. 11 issue the magazine speculated that another, heretofore unknown, team of French agents might have been sent to New Zealand to blow up the ship. A week later Le Monde Reporters Bernard le Gendre and Edwy Plenel revealed that two frogmen had placed mines on the Rainbow Warrior before escaping. Their orders, the paper said, had to have come from a high level within the government, since none of the military figures involved would credibly...
...unless they start reducing that trade imbalance immediately. In its present form, the bill would raise prices on everything Americans buy from Japan, Taiwan, Korea and Brazil. Two bills introduced by Republican Senator John Danforth of Missouri, who still considers himself a proponent of free trade, would direct Reagan to close American markets to Japanese products exactly as much as Japan closes its markets to American goods and would impose penalties on goods from countries that cannot be persuaded through negotiations to buy U.S.-made telecommunications equipment (possibly Japan, Canada and Brazil...