Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...employee at the agency, which regularly does pro bono work for women's groups and organizations promoting children's rights. His response was, well, intemperate: a photo of what appeared to be an African child kissing the rear end of a cow and a cheeky suggestion that Schleuning might direct her energies to eradicating such practices. Then came another round of correspondence, in which Fallon McElligott sent Schleuning a pith helmet, a mosquito net and an offer to pay her expenses to Africa "one way." By this time, Schleuning had alerted the St. Paul-based Minnesota Women's Consortium, which...
...more stunning when Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra climaxed the heated session with what appeared to be a remarkable set of concessions. Ortega agreed to meet within days with leaders of the U.S.-backed contras and to open direct negotiations for a cease-fire in Nicaragua's civil war, now in its seventh year. Once the shooting stopped, Ortega said, his Marxist-oriented Sandinista government would release its political prisoners. He also promised to lift the six-year state of emergency that had allowed the Managua regime to impose its dictatorial rule. Those last-minute pledges saved the meeting...
Weaton calls himself a radical socialist, but the Pet Shop Boys, who shy away from direct political writing and look like fashion objets themselves, end up saying the most about the Britpop scene and about the years of Thatcher's England. Shopping, from their current album Actually, sounds like a recessional hymn for a fashion show until Tennant's lyrics catch hold: "Our gain is your loss/ That's the price you pay/ I heard it in the House of Commons/ Everything's for sale." Britpop may be so smooth and cool that it has brought...
...JOSE, Costa Rica--Contra leaders met yesterday with peace mediator Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo and then announced that they will open direct cease-fire talks with Nicaragua's Sandinista government...
...Sandinistas may want to hold the talks early in an effort to reach an agreement in time to head off approval of more U.S. aid for the Contras. The direct talks were not scheduled to open in San Jose until one day after President Reagan is expected to ask Congress for more Contra...