Word: reines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Duvall's choice of actors is an alchemy of pragmatism and intuition. "Producing," she says, "is just chemistry plus some financing." Her form of creative control is to give everyone virtual free rein. An upcoming production of The Beauty and the Beast, for example, has been filmed by Director Roger Vadim in the surrealistic style of Jean Cocteau. Duvall encourages the actors to take chances, even allowing Carol Kane to portray a good fairy as an insecure and pixieish Valley Girl...
Administration officials last week were publicly and pointedly urging Volcker to rein in the money supply, even if that causes a modest uptick in interest rates. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, who had reservations about Volcker's reappointment, called for "slow-repeat slow-and steady" money growth...
...building, even if the people there are the most intelligent people in the world, which they are not. We decided to put the plan under the control of the market." To be sure, Hungary's economy has strong state direction, with the central bank exercising a tight rein on credit. But Hungary's concessions to a market economy include allowing people to make some profits from family farm plots...
...activist against researcher, but divided the scientific community as well Nobel laureates George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, and James D. Watson, Cabot Professor of Natural Science, openly clashed as leftist Wald opposed unbridled research while Watson who helped discover DNA two decades earlier argued the case for free rein...
...free rein given to clandestine operations ended in the mid-1970s. Hearings chaired by Frank Church, then a Democratic Senator from Idaho, revealed a panoply of dirty tricks that shocked the American public. From 1960 to 1965, according to the Church report, the CIA concocted at least eight plots, none ever carried out, to kill Cuba's Fidel Castro, as well as a bizarre scheme to dust the dictator's shoes with a powder designed to make his beard fall out. The agency was also implicated in the assassination of Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo...