Word: directionality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...declined comment on speculation that Vance tried to persuade the Egyptian leader to send a top-level official to Israel to revive direct negotiations between the two countries and perhaps attend the funeral on Tuesday of former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir...
Safer supplies. U.S. ammunition depots and even aircraft used to sit out in the open in West Germany, vulnerable to attack. Now all U.S. warplanes are tucked safely inside $550,000 concrete and steel hangars. These are capable of withstanding a direct hit from a 500-lb. bomb. Many command posts, ammunition dumps and fuel depots have been similarly hardened. Tougher training. U.S. forces in Europe train more frequently and in more realistic circumstances than in the past. Surprise alerts sound at any moment of the day or night, sending troops racing to their posts. During the exercises, communications...
Fortunately, Kahn gets on well with most other economic policymakers, notably Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and Chief Economic Adviser Charles Schultze. Just about everybody in Washington agrees that Kahn is talented, if a bit of a ham, but that he needs to direct himself better. Kahn concurs: "I'm getting pretty sick of talking about all the things I'm going to do. I want to devote more time to the substance of this...
Attempting to offer some moral underpinnings for his opposition to the name-change, Allison states it "would do little to advance the cause of freedom in South Africa." While there is no direct correlation between the renaming of the library and the fall of the white minority government, having the name Engelhard attached to the Kennedy School gives legitimacy to Engelhard's actions in South Africa, and to the company bearing his name which continues to operate there. The current Engelhard family parent corporation, Engelhard Minerals and Chemicals, has refused to reveal the extent of the assets and activities...
...school. This isolation is particularly glaring in the graduate school's lack of interest in the "dining hall" undergraduate productions. "It's not considered respectable for graduate students to get involved in theater outside of University Theater," McLaughlin says. "Before Brustein, it used to be that graduate students would direct undergraduate productions. Now it's not common for undergraduates to stage a performance and not one graduate student show...