Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Direct questioning will lead to the exhaustive discussions of flip statements that pass by on the campaign trail without follow-up. (Take a simple and straightforward example like Reagan's plan to raise the national speed limit from 55 mph. When questioned, Reagan replies that the national government shouldn't dictate its citizens' style of living. At a debate a Reagan opponent could quote Department of Transportation statistics: a higher speed limit would mean more traffic deaths and more wasted fuel.) Discussions of issues such as the 55 mph speed limit have not been avoided this campaign. But the repercussions...
...tones of "Rock Lobster," but their spirit still seemed repressed on that first album. Without the visual effects, the bare music sounded too thin and repetitive. They've replaced the loose craziness with a tighter brand of insanity. Refinement supplants disorganization; their energy emanates in a more controlled and direct fashion. They communicate better because their musicianship is more solid. They've matured and they know it. This new confidence and improved ability gives both their live show and their new album the flexibility and sharp energy that the group originally lacked...
...less than a minute it was over. We poured outside and crossed a rickety wooden bridge to view the damage: just 300 yds. away on Sinbad Island, bright orange flames and thick black smoke curled from a coastal dredging vessel that had been nearly cut in half by a direct hit. Fire engines raced to the scene and sprayed water and foam to prevent the flames from spreading to nearby military craft...
Explains Melvin Stiles, the company's president: "Here in the U.S., either I or someone else in the company has direct contact with our customers. But overseas, in such places as Saudi Arabia, it is too expensive to maintain an office, so we I rely on a dealer. He's the person who I unearths the opportunities and makes I the sales. We offer our equipment I to the dealer at a discount off the list price, and his markup to the customer is, in effect, his commission...
...Every time someone makes a public confession, his audience grows conscious of their own secret sins. The mere presence of the confessor is mortifying, implicitly incriminating. The audience cannot take it. The more direct his approach, the more they want to get rid of him. Carnage ensues...