Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impressed by your concise and balanced presentation of the Administration's proposed balance of payments program [Jan. 12]. It is indeed surprising and somewhat disappointing, in the light of what economists now know about the mechanics of the balance of payments adjustment, that this package of direct controls over international-capital flows and foreign travel should be presented to the public as an operational remedy for the chronic American payments deficit. Even without considering possible foreign retaliatory measures, the combined negative "feedbacks" (e.g., reduced exports and return flows of earnings on loans and investments abroad) will do much over...
...Manhattan apartment dweller, Shnayerson found that his car and its insurance were getting too expensive to justify the trouble of hunting down parking places. "I took direct action," he says. "I drove the bloody thing to the Sanitation Department instead of leaving it on the street-one of maybe five or six citizens who made the effort that year. And on delivering the car, which was still in good running shape, I was met by disbelieving Sanitation men who tried to persuade me either to keep it, sell it, or give it to them. Then they saw I was serious...
...with stirring performances of Stravinsky and Brahms. At 24, he was named conductor of the Montreal Symphony, and a year later won the same post with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, thus becoming not only the youngest conductor of a leading U.S. orchestra but also the only man ever to direct two major orchestras in North America at once. In fact, he conducted the two groups simultaneously: at Expo 67, he led them in a massed performance of Berlioz' Symphonic Fantastique...
...especially awkward for Trowbridge because for months he has been assuring worried businessmen that no harsh steps would be necessary. Last week, as Trowbridge started to recruit a staff of 200 experts for his infant Office of Foreign Direct Investment, all kinds of problems popped up. Telephone inquiries by the hundreds deluged his skeletal staff, which was handicapped by the lack not only of the inevitable official forms but also of the prestigious business executive that the Secretary seeks to take charge of OFDI...
Neither of the students, however, were told by their boards that their reclassifications were the direct result of their participation in the Oct. 16 demonstration or of Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey's directive to induct students for "illegal" protests against the draft...