Word: director
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...accomplishment was lowering the projected deficit to $29 billion. With the economy now in the fourth year of recovery and expansion, there really should be no deficit at all; but attempting to slow the flow of red ink is a move in the right direction. For that, Budget Director James Mclntyre deserves much credit. Unlike years past, when Carter involved himself deeply in the budget-drafting process and reviewed the document virtually line by line, this year he left the task largely to Mclntyre. The budget boss mainly succeeded in keeping new spending proposals by agency and department heads...
...McGraw-Hill board until the bid was made, "clearly violated his fiduciary duties to McGraw-Hill and the stockholders ... by misappropriating confidential information and conspiring with American Express" to acquire McGraw-Hill on the cheap. McGraw wound up with a threat to sue Morley, Amexco and each Amexco director. The next day McGraw and Lipton filed suit asking for $500 million in damages should Amexco be successful...
Every Which Way goes in every which direction to no particular avail. It is nearly impossible to sit through. Chase scenes, barroom brawls and barehanded boxing matches follow in dizzying succession, but the movie rarely lurches forward. Director James Fargo (Caravans) seems to delight in disorienting the audience: it is a major chore to figure out who is punching whom, not to mention why. For punctuation, there are running gags. Ruth Gordon pops up, without warning or justification, to do her foul-mouthed-old-lady routine; the Gray Panthers would be well advised to have an injunction slapped...
...Director Guy Hamilton, who has also done his share of Bonds, has a gift for moving this sort of nonsense right along, and the special effects, when everyone finally gets around to blowing up all the concrete in sight, are persuasive enough. There are occasional moments of violent excess (a decapitation, the sadism visited on Bach) that uncomfortably remind us of the harsh realities...
...most schools, the influx has been welcome. At the University of Southern California, which has the largest foreign enrollment of four-year institutions, the 3,700 outlanders account for 23% of the student body. Says John Callaghan, executive director for International Students and Scholars: "With the predicted decline in domestic enrollment, the slack has to be picked up somewhere if universities are to survive." At Indiana University, where enrollment dropped by nearly 4% this academic year, 1,498 tuition-paying foreign students at Bloomington contributed $1.1 million of that school's $15 million in tuition revenues...