Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Farm Subsidies. Price-support loans and direct subsidies will cost Washington about $12 billion in 1985, down from a record $20 billion two years ago but nearly four times the outlay in the last year of the Carter Administration. Reaganauts grumble that the subsidies are distorting the farm economy. They complain, for example, that some processors are turning out cheese in 7-lb. blocks suitable primarily for storage by the Government. Administration officials talk rather vaguely of shifting to lower supports over a three-to-five-year transition period...
...half of all street crime. The anticrime package also contains more than 50 new sections, many of which enhance local law-enforcement efforts. These include statutes providing for tough action against repeat offenders, a permanent toll-free number to help locate missing children, up to $70 million in direct aid to effective local law-enforcement programs, surplus property to increase state prison space, procedures for police to share in forfeited criminal assets, and as much as $100 million to help compensate victims. Perhaps most important, past experience has shown that such landmark federal legislation will serve as a model...
...January marks the beginning of what could be the first two-term presidency in a generation. In TIME'S Washington bureau, however, Jan. 1 will mark a change of leadership: Robert Ajemian, bureau chief for the past seven years, is moving back to his home town, Boston, to direct TIME'S New England coverage. His replacement will be Strobe Talbott, most recently the magazine's diplomatic correspondent...
...tons. NASA's plans call for a more modest increase in capacity, to between 1.75 and 2 tons by 1986. In addition, Arianespace officials expect that by the mid-1990s they will be able to place heavy loads with great precision into low orbit, which would be a direct challenge to one of the space shuttle's strengths. Says Roger Vignelles, launch director for the French National Space Agency, a part owner of Arianespace: "I think that we can give the Americans an interesting run for their money...
...cross-cultural juxtaposition of music and poetry complement each other surprisingly well. Rock lyrics are rarely known for their intricacy, and neither are Chinese poems. As Warner commented, the poems "imagery is very simple and direct and beautiful. It's very earthy, it doesn't bullshit around. That's why the Blake poem is in there, to sort of contrast. He's very wordy and his images are very thick." The finest of the eleven songs also has the most stereotypically Oriental source, a mournful pastoral poem botanically entitled "Motherwort...