Word: directs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...step was the first direct action taken so far in U.S. efforts to free the 60 American hostages Iranian students have held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran for nine days...
Carter's announcement yesterday that the U.S. will stop direct purchasing of Iranian oil drew support from 68.3 per cent of the respondents. More than 45 per cent favored negotiations through the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) although many added the U.S. should not have accepted the PLO's offer of help until all other channels had been tried...
...officer. Kim had a personal grudge against Cha because he had repeatedly criticized the KCIA'S failures to prevent or even predict political unrest. For their part, the army officers resented the way that Cha, a lowly ex-lieutenant colonel, blithely ignored the military command system by issuing direct orders to division-level commanders...
Only outspoken Dissident Kim Dae Jung, 53, dared to break the silence maintained by other politicians. Still under house arrest for his long opposition to the Park regime, Kim urged that the existing 2,583-member electoral college should be scrapped in favor of a direct, popular election for a new President...
...death, the fad that replaced tennis, has lately been talked to death. A viewer may approach Promises in the Dark with some wariness, therefore, because the subject of the film is a 17-year-old girl's death after a long battle with cancer. But Promises is clear, direct and honest, and free of both cant and sentimentality. It is also lively, in the exact sense of the word; the flow of intelligence and feeling between Buffy, the sick girl, and her family and friends makes her inevitable death tolerable...