Word: directives
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Such a direct statement at the start of the talks set Ortega off balance, Hakim says, and led him to make the concessions necessary to sign on. Now only Honduras remained. Though hostile to the plan, the country risked being the "odd man out," Hakim says, and Arias emphasized that danger. As a result, Honduras, too, signed on to the Arias plan...
...speech this fall at the Kennedy School of Government, which, University Marshal Hunt notes, favorably impressed those involved in selecting the Commencement speaker, Arias made a direct connection between Costa Rica's unique history and his efforts on behalf of peace...
Harvard is also giving the faculty more say in graduate student admissions, Herron says. She says Vendler has helped increase the direct contact among the faculty, Dean of the Graduate School Sally Falk Moore and prospective students. "Since January of this year, the effort here has gone to a new level of intensity," Herron says, adding that she can now contact Moore directly to recommend candidates and gets an immediate answer to her requests...
...prepared to take outspoken positions. But she never expected that Harvard's brand of activism would involve so much tolerance on the University's part, and so much cooperation on the activists' side. She says Harvard activism is almost a cooperative effort between students and administrators, far from the direct opposition that characterized the movement in the 1960s and 1970s...
...activism is taking a direct and vigorous stance for what you believe about a controversial issue," says Truong, who has also organized Boston rallies to protest the Thai government's efforts to discourage Vietnamese refugees from seeking asylum in Thailand. Truong says the reason public service activities have been absorbed into the realm of activism is "because we've gotten more complex about how we think of things...