Word: directives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...avoiding the libraries and Science Center in order to bring you, the home reader, information about ResEdit a handy utility program for the Macintosh that lets you play some neat tricks on your computer. The program is in the public domain and is available from most user groups or direct from Apple for a nominal...
...pleasure lovers, gives Friedrich his title). Igor Stravinsky, Friedrich relates, tried to write movie music but never succeeded. When Producer Irving Thalberg offered $25,000 for a score for The Good Earth, the distinguished and threadbare atonalist Arnold Schoenberg demanded $50,000 and the right to direct the actors, who, he felt, should chant their lines...
...expanding investigation into such matters will inevitably dredge up revelations about the links that North and others had with the private effort to help the Nicaraguan rebels. During much of the past two years, there was a congressional ban on direct or indirect U.S. military assistance to the contras. Eugene Hasenfus, the American mercenary who was released last week, is expected to be among those called by Congress to testify next year. When asked if he would do so, Hasenfus replied...
...Sunday afternoon Kimche took McFarlane and North to a meeting in a London apartment. The Iranian contact turned out to be not very direct: it was not a government official but Ghorbanifar, the expatriate arms dealer. Yaacov Nimrodi, an Israeli arms merchant, was also present. Kimche had represented Ghorbanifar as being politically astute, but McFarlane found him to be a "man of no integrity" who was obsessed with arms and insensitive to the political concerns of the U.S. McFarlane returned to Washington and gave a pessimistic report to the NSC. Shultz was traveling in Europe but sent advice...
...crystal centerpiece. Jay Feinberg's simple and sleek Austrian-crystal jewelry, priced from $20 to $500, is popular at such upscale outlets as Neiman-Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue. While many faux pieces are original designs (Lane's big sellers this season are animals, bows and flowers), some are direct copies of the real glitter sold by such elite names in the jewelry trade as Bulgari and Cartier. Says Lane: "Most people I copy see it as a compliment. Let's face it. You're nobody if I haven't knocked...