Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will devote itself to developing the long-awaited Cray-3, a computer that will compete head on with the next generation of supermachines produced by Cray Research. "It's a stunning development," says Gary Smaby, an analyst with , Needham & Co. "For a company to set up and fund a direct competitor must be unprecedented...
...Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., a member of Wright's legal defense team who was involved in the talks, said he believed a consensus was emerging among ethics committee members that charges Wright improperly accepted gifts from a business executive friend with a direct interest in legislation were not well founded...
Drawing mattered a great deal to Jones, more, probably, than it had to any English architect before him. He was not content to direct work with rough perspective sketches and leave details to the inherited skills of artisans. He had collected some 250 sheets by his paragon, Palladio. From these he learned the conventions of drawing to a fixed scale, combining them with a fluent pen- and-wash technique to give a truthful, not just impressionistic, account of the future building. One sees his formidable skill as both a technical and a pictorial draftsman growing right through the show. "Altro...
...Pakistan and the U.S. His case has been helped by recent news accounts that Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto had ordered Lieut. General Hamid Gul, head of Pakistan's military intelligence organization (ISI) to launch the bloody Jalalabad assault. Gul and the ISI are unmistakably doing their best to direct the mujahedin operations, but it seems likely that he told Bhutto of the impending attack rather than the reverse. Although the mujahedin cause remains popular, Pakistan's role in the rebel campaign, whether as arms supplier or back-door manager, has turned off some Afghans...
...cannot cast ballots for anything except island leaders. In the early 1960s, the Federal Government started pouring planeloads of money into its castaway dependency, partly in the spirit of idealism, and partly with an eye to its unmatched, and strategically useful, harbor (last year, Washington sent $45 million in direct aid to a community with one-sixth as many people as Mesa, Ariz.). Yet the U.S. has never bothered too much about the legal niceties of its anomalous territory. After President William McKinley took over the main island in 1900, fully 29 years passed before Congress deigned to make...