Word: directing
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...their ballots for Bush for President, Bentsen for Senator. Officially, though, the G.O.P. strategy is to ignore Bentsen and concentrate on painting Dukakis as a liberal outsider. Bush allies have drafted some 50 different appeals to specific groups of Texans to be banged home by local TV commercials and direct mail. In Abilene, for example, where B-1 bombers are based, the G.O.P. will charge incorrectly that Dukakis may scrap the program; messages beamed to the predominantly Roman Catholic Hispanics in the Rio Grande Valley will stress Bush's opposition to abortion. Dukakis will counter by assailing the Administration...
...consider ways to encourage minorities to teach law--no concrete actions. The problems are clear--there are not enough women and minorities being hired and there is not a conducive climate towards keeping them here. It's up to the University to stop pontificating from on high and take direct action...
...there needs to be more direct dialogue between administrators and students. Officials rarely met with the student groups issuing complaints last year; they simply responded in terse, written statements when student goups, such as the Minority Students Alliance, asked them to listen. This is no way to conduct relations and certainly no way to democratically accommodate and act on student concerns...
...beginning a regimen that inmates call "bus therapy" -- being transferred from facility to facility -- both Martin and the Chronicle filed suit against Rison, two other Lompoc officials and two officials of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Says Jeffrey Leon, Martin's attorney: "We believe he was punished as a direct result of his article, and that is illegal...
Sure enough, Masson provides plenty of examples of abusive behavior on the part of psychotherapists, especially those who have access to patients in mental institutions. There is the case of John Rosen, whose "direct analysis" still receives attention in some textbooks even though he surrendered his medical license in 1983 rather than face charges by the Pennsylvania medical board. Rosen's specialty was the rough treatment of schizophrenics to gain their attention. And then there was D. Ewen Cameron (1901-67), a much lauded and honored psychiatrist who, at the behest of the CIA, used repeated electroshock treatments...