Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While a chairman must get along with the other representatives to build consensus and direct the body, a good leader also needs to go into office with a set of goals approved by the student body to whom the the council is ultimately responsible. For that reason, all undergraduates should be able to vote for council chairman...
...debate, Bush failed even to mention his running mate. But Ronald Reagan proclaimed during a White House photo opportunity that Bentsen's J.F.K. line was a "cheap shot." Responded Dukakis campaign manager Susan Estrich: "When the Republicans call something a cheap shot, you know you've scored a direct hit." Republicans tried to make a virtue out of necessity by having Quayle dub himself a "lightning rod" for Democratic attacks...
...working methods, the sense of filiation and descent that would breathe through his work for the rest of his life, the past feeding into the present and then out into the future. Degas, the synthesizer of Ingres and Delacroix, would point -- through the wild color fields and direct manual touch of his later years -- to a modernism that was not yet born...
What saved the situation, at that time, was not only the self-correction of a free market but also vigorous, direct intervention by Government and business. The U.S. Federal Reserve injected billions of dollars into the banking system and drove down interest rates. Many blue-chip companies announced massive share repurchase programs and drove the market averages back up. The Japanese government urged its securities industry to support the Tokyo market...
While many of the programs reaching the finals involved direct humanitarian aid, six of the winners focused on more efficient public service, according to K-School reports. The Computer-Assisted Report Entry system of the St. Louis police, for example, uses computers to reduce the time necessary for filing police reports by 80 percent...