Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those members will, in turn, be heavily influenced by whether Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega lives up to his weekend promises immediately to restore civil liberties and engage the Contras in direct cease-fire talks, Coelho added...
...difficulty meeting their contracts and are scrambling to increase output. Says John Strong, president of Health Care Materials Corp.: "Hospitals are within two to three days of not being able to do certain procedures." Industry sources say an element of hysteria has led some hospital employees who have no direct patient contact, like maintenance workers, to begin wearing gloves on the job. Other health-care workers are "double gloving" and in some cases wearing three layers of latex...
...denizens of the Warner Bros. cartoon barnyard seem as vivid as Sly Stallone and twice as funny. They surely seemed so to Greg Ford, a scholar-evangelist who has mounted cartoon retrospectives at museums and revival houses. Last year Warners hired him and Animator Terry Lennon to write and direct the little black duck's comeback vehicle, a 7 min. 41 sec. parody of The Exorcist and Ghostbusters...
...legal abortion jeopardizes the future of the Social Security system by depriving the American economy of needed workers. Nor have his rivals responded to other flights of Robertson rhetoric, like his loose talk of rolling back Communism in the Soviet Union. On the Democratic side, there has been no direct criticism of Jackson's cavalier proposal for Draconian cuts in defense spending. Similarly, no Democrat has asked Jackson to explain how he could tap the nation's pension funds for a massive public works program without jeopardizing the income of retirees or providing expensive federal guarantees...
LISTENING POSTS. Whenever the Soviets launch test missiles, ground controllers monitor and direct the flight by sending and receiving signals in the form of radio waves and microwaves. Those signals can be picked up by a variety of listening posts, including low-flying "ferret" satellites, ships loaded with antennas and a network of ground stations in countries that are close to the Soviet Union, such as Norway and China. By monitoring radio frequencies and telephone calls carried on microwaves, the listening posts can also eavesdrop on a broad range of Soviet military communications. Information can be gleaned, for example...