Word: director
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...supporting the postal workers' refusal to return to work. The National CLC refused to endorse the postal workers' position, while Quebec labor and a number of CLC affiliates strongly supported the strikers. The CLC refused to back the postal workers for "strategic reasons." According to Charles Bauer, CLC director of public relations, the CLC felt "at that time it was a suicidal decision to try to buck the federal government." Essentially, the CLC felt too weak to effectively rally around the beleaguered postal workers, and the national labor organization preferred not to risk its reputation in what was sure...
...Brink's Job this legend is played for all it's worth--even more than it's worth. Director William Friedkin is so intent on showing the lovable underdogs who made it big that he bogs the tale down...
...more than 20 years now, and there's no reason to try to do anything more than that with the movie. Friedkin was not even a bad choice for the man to do it. Although he has a reputation from The Exorcist and The French Connection as a calculating director who stops at nothing to wrench an audience's guts, he also has done this sort of nostalgic tribute before. The Night They Raided Minsky's was a rollicking adventure about vaudeville in America. But since then Friedkin seems to have decided that he would also stop at nothing...
Much of Perry's enthusiasm stems from his great respect for Harvard students. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of University Health Services and long-time colleague of the bureau's director, said yesterday...
Perry will continue to compile a study of the bureau's history while he prepares to turn over the office to his successor. Dean Fox said he has organized a search committee to select a new director of the bureau...