Most directors contacted for this article agreed that an intensive getting-to-know-you process was critical.
Only when the group has come to a consensus on a match between a missing person and a previously unidentified body will a network area director contact the local police with a tip, said Tracie Fleischhut, one of the group's New York State directors and the Doe Network's database administrator.
After the Tuesday morning meeting, Dan Pfeiffer, the president's communications director, contacted ABC and offered a wide-ranging interview with the president for the following day.
Jennifer Palmieri, Mrs. Clinton's communications director, contacted NBC News executives to discuss Wednesday's forum, according to two people familiar with the discussion.
Knowing Mr. Norton's receptivity to unconventional dreams, Alison Maddex, the museum's director, contacted the Norton Foundation more than a year ago in search of money.
Some playwrights have raised objections to regional casting of their plays before; in 1984 Edward Albee opposed all-male productions of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Mr. Guirgis said that he usually took an interest in regional productions when the theater or the director contacts him with questions, and that he tried to attend opening nights when he was invited.
The SOS Village Director contacted her father but was unable to take his daughter back.
Cobb showed Milius his work for Conan and Stone's script which, according to him, re-ignited Milius's interest; the director contacted Pressman, and they came to an agreement: Milius would direct the film if he was allowed to modify the script.
When a positive test was obtained, the laboratory director contacted the doctor who requested the test, to obtain information on the patient (HCW, Govt).
