Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...economists Carter is listening to, are as confused as the public. They have had their chance to manipulate the economy using indirect tactics based on complex theories. The time has come for direct action. A wage-price freeze will cut short the inflationary spiral--but it will only work as a breathing space in which to restructure the economy on sounder foundations...
...suburban schooling. The now-defunct Master of Arts in Teaching program used to train students for cushy positions in Brookline and Scarsdale. But eight years ago inflation, the disintegration of urban public education and a disappearing teacher's job market combined to force the elimination of many programs with direct ties to schools; the educational elite had decided that the Great Society would create the perfect classroom with broad-based, centralized planning. "All of those things were valid," Ylvisaker says, adding that, "We want to continue to be very broad in our approach to schooling...
Mary Mubi, a member of the Zimbabwe African National Union and a graduate student at Boston University, said women within patriarchal societies hasten their liberation by taking direct action and assuming positions of power...
...blacks in South Africa decide to do is entirely their own affair. If they decide to wage an armed struggle, we wish them well. It's not our business either to send our men there with arms to fight on the side of the Liberators, or to move directly in some other form to support that armed struggle. We can denounce apartheid in the forums of the United Nations and the nonaligned movement, but we wouldn't regard it as our direct responsibility to overthrow the South African government. South Africa is a different proposition from Rhodesia, where...
...undid this model boy. His discovery of the decadent poets of the 1890s led him to write lines like "(Oh God!) the wonder of you-" Courtesy of Ezra Pound, he also fell in with free verse and the imagist movement. Poetry henceforth was to be simple, sensuous and direct, images fresh, startling and spare. Cummings proved an apt poetic experimenter, though some of his finest verse, eventually, was traditional...