Word: direct
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...stranger to disappearances of the magnetic field. Perhaps nine times in the past 4,000,000 years, geologic evidence shows, the field has mysteriously reversed. During these reversals the strength of the field gradually wanes, reaches a minimum, and then begins building up again in the opposite direction, resulting in a switch of the north and south magnetic poles. Exactly what will happen this time, McDonald and Gunst are not prepared to say. In the 700,000 years since the last reversal, most of the direct evidence of physical and biological changes that may have occurred in the absence...
Deferred Profitability. The Century computers are adaptable for big companies that need highly sophisticated computers, but NCR will direct its main sales drive toward smaller businessmen -banks with less than $5,000,000 assets, even corner drugstores and service stations-who up to now thought that they could not afford a computer. NCR will either rent them one or else ser vice at one of its data-processing centers the records that shopkeepers compile on other NCR business machines...
Under the 1966 contract, the Army agreed to staff and equip a Department of Military Science at Harvard, which would provide the required Army ROTC courses at no direct expense to the University or its students...
...Committee--a nationwide anti-war group--has interpreted Time's sponsorship of the April 24 poll on presidential preference and the war as "a direct challenge to the anti-war movement." Linda Morse, chairman, said yesterday...
...statement outlined possible escalatory moves before warning that "such measures are fraught with peril. They would substantially increase the risks of a direct military confrontation with China and the Soviet Union...