Word: directs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...statement released yesterday, Connolly attributed the record number of petitions to an "increased interest in direct democracy through the initiative process...
...citizenry perceive the initiative process as one which not only fosters participation among citizens but also delivers direct results, in a rapid fashion," the statement read...
Hwang said he is planning to direct an original adaptation of The Idiot set in contemporary New York in collaboration with Martin Scorcese...
Baer seems proud of the effectiveness of COCA's draft notices. He says that "It is understandable that some students have been frightened or upset by COCA's recent tactics. But their fear and anger should not be ultimately directed at COCA." He says instead that we should direct our anger at the right-wing terror of our government. I happen to agree with him that the current administration is on the wrong side of the Central America issue--but it is not up to me or Baer to scare the daylights out of those who disagree with...
...hours, the drama played out on the world's television screens, and for a while it seemed as if it would provoke direct U.S. military intervention in El Salvador's ugly, decade-old civil war. Twelve Green Berets from Fort Bragg, N.C., part of a U.S. advisory team in El Salvador, were holed up on the fourth floor of the Sheraton Hotel in San Salvador's wealthy Escalon district, while about 20 heavily armed young guerrillas, who had seemingly blundered into the hotel, roamed the floors above and below them...