Word: director
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pensions account for nearly two-thirds of the budget, and in HEW they claim 89c of every dollar. Social Security alone costs $104 billion. Unless the growth of benefits is slowed, the whole Social Security system?as well as the budget?will be in deep trouble. Says Alice Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office: "If you're really concerned about the growth in Government, then you have to go after the uncontrollables." Adds Rudolph Penner, a former economist at OMB under Gerald Ford: "Cutting $30 million here or $100 million there is the approach one is forced to take...
...Steve Boehlke, 30, director of youth fellowship at Ridgewood's West Side Presbyterian Church, agrees. "These kids feel they have to look out for themselves because no one else will. It's a very lonely experience." To break through that psychological barrier, Boehlke is forming a new group, a fellowship of adult church members who want to learn how to relate to their children. Eighty parents came to the first meeting...
...cords in rats. If he has, he is the first to have done it, and many American spinal experts are openly skeptical of Matinyan's report. Still, the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke was sufficiently intrigued to invite Matinyan and the Polenov's director, Veniamin U. Ugryumov, to the U.S. in 1976. American researchers are trying to duplicate the rat experiment, but Dr. Murray Goldstein, NlNCDS's deputy director, says that preliminary results are disappointing. In Leningrad, Ugryumov acknowledged that the treatment is "complex" and involves a number of factors besides the enzyme...
After a take, as Director Jim Frawley (Kid Blue) yelled, "Cut!" Miss Piggy patted Kermit on his little green behind. Kermit, who is not comfortable with bawdiness, swatted at her hand and jumped aside. Miss Piggy then complained teasingly about "the man who is always following me around," referring to Oz, and coyly peeked under the green flap at the bottom of Kermit's costume, exposing Jim Henson's arm. "Oh, you've got one too!" she said. It was the kind of off-camera byplay that goes on more or less constantly...
George S. Kaufman of Broadway saw it. Diana Vreeland of Harper's Bazaar saw it. Director Howard Hawks not only saw it but developed and packaged it for millions of entertainment-starved Americans emerging from the empty frying pans of the Depression into the fires of World...