Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...after the violent overthrow of their last freely elected government, Chile's voters roundly endorsed the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. The vote ratified a new constitution that gives Pinochet, 64, at least eight more years as "transitional" President-and suggests the full rebirth of direct democracy only in 1997. As the returns trickled in, tens of thousands of jubilant demonstrators gathered outside the presidential headquarters in Santiago, waving banners and chanting "?Gracias a Pinochet!" Obviously moved, the dictator called the results a "heroic gesture" and a "triumph over Communism...
...able to find out by giving selected people precise amounts of chemicals for specific lengths of time and comparing these human guinea pigs with a control group that has not been exposed. But such experiments would raise proper howls of indignation. So the disease detectives must rely on less direct methods...
...struggling supermarket, but now it has become a popular food barn. There are no sweepstakes or eye-catching displays to attract customers. The store, moreover, charges 25? if people pay for groceries with a check, and grocery bags cost 3? each. Large yellow arrows on the aisle floors direct customers to Maxwell House coffee at $2.99 per lb., ground beef at $1.29 per Ib. and a 5-Ib. box of Tide at $2.58. All are substantially cheaper than at competing markets. On nights and weekends, when the store is most crowded, the atmosphere is akin to the running...
DIED. Barbara Loden, 48, actress-director, one of the first women to write, direct and star in her own feature film; of cancer; in New York City. She had been married since 1967 to Elia Kazan, who directed her in her Tony Award-winning performance as the Marilyn Monroe figure in Arthur Miller's After the Fall. Her 1970 Wanda, a proto-feminist chronicle about a drab, desperate Appalachian housewife, won the International Critics Prize at that year's Venice Film Festival...
...revision in the methodology by which National Direct Student Loans (NDSL) will be financed...