Word: directives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lower classes: U-DINKs and L-DINKs. No doubt, while the L-DINKs are rushing to graduate from K mart to Marshall Field, the U-DINKs will be deserting the Banana Republic for Abercrombie & Fitch. Because busy U-DINKs tend to miss mass-media advertising, upscale magazines and direct mail are the most effective way to target them. Kotler cites the Sharper Image, a top-of-the-line techie catalog, as defining U-DINK style...
...Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, the Labor Party leader, are increasingly worried that Israelis will judge the government's greatest failure to be its inability to achieve a breakthrough in relations with its Arab neighbors. Yet the two men are at loggerheads over a peace strategy. Shamir holds out for direct talks, maintaining that the only way to guarantee enduring peace is to negotiate a separate accord with each country involved. Peres agrees that direct talks are critical but believes that Jordan and other Arab states will negotiate only under the umbrella of an international conference...
...wide range of issues, some of them of a politically sensitive nature. Assad authorized me to state that he supported the concept of an international peace conference, that Syria would be pleased to attend and that it was clear that many outstanding questions would have to be negotiated in direct talks between Israel and the particular Arab nation involved. I found him to be adequately flexible concerning the format and possible procedures to be followed. This was quite a change from Assad's attitude during my previous discussions with...
...addition, the budget would entirely abolish a number of key student aid programs. These include Supplemental Grants, College Work-Study, Direct Loans, State Student Incentive Grants, and several graduate fellowship programs. The cuts would eliminate and additional two million federal aid awards...
Given the close proximity of the audience and the actors, Evett should have toned down everyone's performance; even Gelber seems to imagine he is playing for 200 instead of 20 from time to time. Perhaps if Evett had found someone to direct himself, he could have achieved the glass-like clarity of Gelber's acting. After all, the only dramatic thing an actor can do in a one-character monologue is to slowly open a window into the character's soul; there's no dialogue, or conflict, or imagery to rely upon...