Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other world capitals, South Africa's possible possession of the bomb was at least a distant menace to international security. At the U.N., which imposed an embargo on arms shipments to South Africa two years ago, the General Assembly called on Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim to conduct an investigation. In Washington, the House subcommittee on Africa ordered an inquiry. With both Pakistan and Israel also suspected of having or developing a nuclear capacity, the cause of nonproliferation was hardly being served by the prospect that the club was getting less exclusive...
...composers, including America's Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson and Roger Sessions; in Paris. Though a promising composer, she taught indefatigably for five decades and had great influence on such American-born artists as Classicist Roy Harris and Experimentalist Philip Glass. She was also the first woman to conduct London's Royal Philharmonic, New York's Philharmonic and the Philadelphia and Boston symphony orchestras...
...trustees meet four times a year, but an executive committee meets monthly to conduct more immediate business. "The executive committee does the nitty-gritty stuff," Burr says. Their composition is much less homogeneous than the Corporation's--the mix of alumni, parents, academics, businessmen and professionals (not to mention the presence of women and minority group members) make the Radcliffe trustees more like Harvard's Board of Overseers than the Corporation. (The Overseers are a larger group that meets less frequently than the Corporation and advises the University on non-financial matters...
Baker continued to Concord, N.H. and to Maine, where today he will woo 1500 Maine Republican leaders scheduled to conduct a straw poll
...What of the various codes of corporate conduct? The Sullivan Principles, for example...