Word: directives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the meeting yielded up no declarations that will be remembered for their ringing prose, it did produce two carefully wrought but unusually direct communiques, one condemning state-sponsored terrorism, another supporting a plan to stabilize currency-rate fluctuations. The statements represented personal victories for two members of the Reagan Cabinet. Secretary of State George Shultz has waged a long and sometimes lonely struggle to develop a consensus in the U.S. and among America's allies on the need to strike back against states that sponsor terrorism; Tripoli and Tokyo are proof that he has succeeded. Treasury Secretary James Baker...
...page position paper that Shultz, White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan and National Security Adviser John Poindexter had hurriedly drafted during the Air Force One flight. Thatcher, much to everyone's surprise, then pulled out a two-page proposal of her own. It included a checklist of direct measures that the allies could undertake...
Grad students face pressures themselves, not the least of which is their imminent graduation into an always hostile and sometimes tight job market. They are also at the direct mercy of their faculty advisors for teaching fellow positions and professional contacts, as well as for thesis-related support...
...outcome of this disenfranchisement [from decision-making] is that the student body is led to confront the Administration outside of the existing ineffectual channels in direct actions," the group wrote...
...only hope that graduate students are realizing and assuming their burden of leadership. And one can only hope that "direct actions" are being planned as we speak...