Word: direct
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Most of the Federal grants are designated for specific research projects. A few, such as the "Medical Resource Library Grant" to Harvard, are of more direct benefit to the Medical School's educational services...
Ford did, however, direct the government to make a variety of material available to the defendants, including written or recorded statements by any of the defendants, other recordings and films, and any books or documents the government might be planning to use at the trial. The material must be given to the defendants at least 10 days before the trial, Ford said...
Assistant U.S. Attorney John Wall maintained that the defendants' actions had been performed with the intent to break the law, not to exercise free speech. He added that direct incitement to illegal acts was not covered by the First Amendment...
...with the spectators, I decided to take a nap, and slept happily straight through it until the big film (first prize, dramatic division) came on, George Lucas's THX 1138 4EB (USC), which is as dazzling as advance reports (Newsweek's, among others) had suggested. Lucas's premise comes direct from Alphaville and 1984: in a computer-run dehumanized society where everyone is numbered and serves a function, one man is in undefined revolt. The entire action of the film consists of his running through endless corridors, largely seen through computer monitors. The idea is simple and effective, and extraordinarily...
...famous example, shouts fire in a crowded theatre is liable to prosecution. Spock and the four others are accused of interfering with the operation of the Selective Service System by verbally counselling young men to defy its regulations, and if the government can prove that their speech was the direct cause of someone's lawbreaking, they may well be convicted...