Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea to his friend Frederick Zollo, an off-Broadway producer-director, who sold it to Orion. Several directors were proposed -- Milos Forman, John Schlesinger -- before Orion suggested Alan Parker, 44. His films (Midnight Express, Fame, Birdy) resist classification by content, but in style they are as easy to spot as a fist in your face. Bang on! That is both Parker's strength and limitation, which has the dervish precision of the ace London commercials director he once was. But he had never made a film with such daunting logistics as this...
LIKE any case of unfair treatment against a minority group, the only way to completely eradicate bias against gays and lesbians is education. The Hampton controversy has one bright spot--it has received nationwide media coverage, showing the country the daily ordeal gays and lesbians must endure in their ordinary lives...
...marks to overall airport procedures at Heathrow, where officials have for years contended with the possibility of Irish Republican Army terrorism, and at Frankfurt. Others point out that no airport is completely safe. "Baggage control is pretty good at both Frankfurt and London, but tarmac security remains a weak spot everywhere," says an industry official. "A bomb with a timing device could have been put into the forward baggage hold." According to Pan Am officials, security was tightened after the airline received the FAA advisory, but they refused to say what was done...
...mulled the Kemp appointment, Bush scrambled to fulfill his pledge to add minorities to his Cabinet. He met last week with Dr. Louis Sullivan, president of Atlanta's predominantly black Morehouse School of Medicine and the leading candidate for the Health and Human Services spot. He also tapped Clayton Yeutter, now special trade representative, to head the Agriculture Department...
...Today's jobs also require greater judgment on the part of workers. Clerks at Hartford's Travelers insurance company no longer just type endless claim forms and pass them along for approval by someone else. Instead they are expected to settle a growing number of minor claims on the spot with a few deft punches of the computer keyboard. Now, says Bob Fenn, director of training at Travelers: "Entry-level clerks have to be capable of using information and making decisions...