Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...amazes me is the mail sent to us not only from my country but from people all over the world, whom I've never met, wishing us good luck and a speedy return to our family and friends. It is to these very kind and generous people I direct this letter. From myself and my fellow hostages, please accept our deepest thanks for taking the time to show your concern for us in this most trying situation. I hope that you will all continue to write in the future...
...vice-presidential candidate former Wisconsin Governor Patrick Lucey, 62, a Democrat who was appointed Ambassador to Mexico by Carter and later resigned in a policy dispute. Lucey would not balance the ticket geographically for Illinois' Anderson, but he would help Anderson ideologically: a liberal, he helped direct Kennedy's fight for the nomination...
...With direct mail bringing in $250,000 a week, Anderson is still not raising enough money for a strong race, but he plans to attend several fund raisers this month. He has also sued to overturn a decision of the Federal Election Commission to deny him federal subsidies because he is an independent rather than a third-party candidate...
Current office building owners are willing sellers. They are anxious to pull their profits out of the long-depressed, but now booming, downtown real estate market in order to direct corporate cash to other projects. Pan Am, for example, wants to retire some of the $1.1 billion in long-term debt that it has built up to pay for new fuel-efficient jets. Pan Am was also looking for cash because in the first half of the year it sustained an operating loss of $108.5 million. Pan Am Chairman William Seawell doubts that the company will taxi up to profits...
Billy's long and burning resentment of his older brother was the main reason he went his own way over the years, and the alienation made the President unnecessarily hesitant to direct his brother not to get entangled with the Libyans. According to family and friends, nothing hurt Billy more than what Jimmy did with the family's farm and peanut warehouse. Billy inherited a love for the soil from his father Earl, who used to tell him: "Someday you'll be in charge of things when you grow up. Jimmy's chosen the Navy...