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Word: directing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sapoa, a town on the Costa Rican border, representatives of the Sandinista government and Contras began their first direct talks yesterday on Nicaraguan soil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nicaraguan Soldiers Leave Border Area | 3/22/1988 | See Source »

...nearly 1,000 cities and towns. The exercise in democracy -- until now the country's mayors have been appointed by Bogota -- is designed in part to give cities like Medellin new powers to fight such menaces as organized crime and drugs. Some feel that an administration with a direct mandate to govern will find it easier to face these challenges than an outside appointee with no popular support. Yet many fear that decentralization of power will make cities even less governable than in the past. Nowhere are the concerns greater than in Medellin, where the cartel, a loose association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia the Most Dangerous City | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

Hobson and McCarley, who are both associated with the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical School, also tried to add to their dream model by analyzing the chemicals processed in the brain during REM sleep and then studying differences in the way various hormones direct sleeping versus waking activities...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Sweet Dreams...? | 3/18/1988 | See Source »

...from ruin." The extended use of the first person represents a noteworthy departure from standard biblical texts, which are usually written in the third person with brief quotations sprinkled throughout. The style of the Genesis Apocryphon, Charlesworth insists, "is not a literary device to make the action more direct. It reflects the theology of the Jews of the period, who were living in what was for them a time of great stress. They believed this was not just a record of what someone thought Noah said, but a direct message from Noah himself to a people who were facing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: When The Dead Are Revived | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

Baldwin charged that the hearing was not conducted fairly. He claimed the hearing took place in an atmosphere of "lynch-mob hysteria." He also said the panel's non-voting chairman, Dean of the College Edward Shanahan could not be impartial because Shanahan's direct superior, Dartmouth President James O. Freedman, last week issued a statement condemning the incident...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Students Suspended For Confrontation With Professor | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

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