Word: directs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That exploratory phone call, of course, is no guarantee of accuracy. New York magazine inquired whether I had reviewed a manuscript for possible serialization in TIME. Yes, I had; no, we wouldn't. But the item relating this routine transaction attributed a direct quote to me ostensibly delivered to "colleagues." The remark, never uttered, was not checked either with me or with the editor to whom I had reported. Later, the New York Times Book Review picked up the unfounded quote. The news section of the same Sunday edition carried an editors' note pointing out that the original gossip-page...
...survival produced unaccustomed cooperation and civility. On the night of the quake, there were only 25 arrests for vandalism in San Francisco, down from the usual 100 or so, though such arrests were a low police priority that evening. Countless residents grabbed flashlights to direct traffic at intersections where signal lights had stopped. In the seedy Mission district of San Francisco, a woman carrying two flashlights, precious as gold under the circumstances, overheard two men discuss stealing one. In a rare spirit of camaraderie, they refrained...
...coups that might result in the assassination of foreign political leaders? That old controversy was being debated with new intensity last week in Washington. In the wake of this month's failed coup against Panama's Manuel Antonio Noriega, the fickle finger of blame is being pointed in all directions. It has been aimed at George Bush, at Congress, at CIA director William Webster and at the coup plotters themselves. Last week it targeted a section of a presidential order that bars all direct or indirect U.S. involvement in assassinations. The issue was whether American officials withheld support...
...A.N.C. has an elected leadership. Whatever Mandela does, he first has to consult those leaders. Although the A.N.C. recognizes Mandela's standing, he cannot direct the group. What he can do, and what he has done, is communicate with the movement, reporting what he has done or what is being said to him ((by the government...
...hand on him to direct him to leave," said Hillman, who suffered a severe concussion and was hospitalized overnight. The thief fled with the cash box, which contained $500, according to the police report...