Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even for their participation in combat, that last barrier is not likely to fall anytime soon. Congresswoman Beverly Byron, who chairs the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel and Compensation, strongly supports the Pentagon reforms, but she admits, "There is a chauvinistic, male repugnance to women in direct combat that I share." Lorrie Hayward, a Nebraska-born lieutenant stationed in Frankfurt, West Germany, is blunter. Says she: "The American people are simply not ready for women coming home in body bags...
...candidates are forced to spend amounts that would be inadequate to win some seats in the California state senate. Small wonder that this year, as in every campaign since 1976, contenders are vying with one another to invent the most artful ways to beat the cap. Almost all direct mail to undecided Iowa voters, for example, comes with an awkward postscript asking for contributions. The rationale: fund-raising appeals are exempt from the state spending caps...
Until Blandon, Kalish and others provided direct evidence of Noriega's criminal activities, American officials were divided over what to do about him. As early as 1972, a U.S. narcotics agent proposed his "total and complete immobilization" -- meaning assassination. But the agent's superior rejected the idea. Last March, when Senators Jesse Helms of North Carolina and John Kerry of Massachusetts introduced a resolution condemning Panama for its , poor showing in the war on drugs, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Trott protested that the Panamanian record was "superb...
...ventures that lately have produced more reliable income. Dealmakers like Wasserstein and Perella are especially eager to become merchant bankers, who use their own capital to help finance mergers. Merchant bankers can make either a so-called bridge loan to a company that is attempting a merger or a direct investment in a company that is being acquired...
Except for the May 28, 1982, letter to Jenkins, the defense conceded that Nofziger made all the contacts charged in the indictment but contended he did not violate the ethics law because the issues he raised were not of "direct and substantial interest" to the White House...