Word: direct
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Significant Shift. The timing of these talks was auspicious, because it coincided with a significant shift of emphasis by the U.S. in possible means for negotiating an end to the war. Johnson has often called for direct negotiations between the U.S. and North Viet...
...Gaza Strip village of Dir el-Bel-lah, troops destroyed ten Arab houses in direct reprisal for the murder of a young Jewish settler. On the West Bank, bulldozers leveled the entire town of Jiftlig (prewar pop. 6,000) because it was a suspected staging area for terrorist units...
Explaining the Gap. Chief among the direct causes of infant death are respiratory malfunction, low birth weight, premature birth, and congenital malformations of the circulatory, digestive and central nervous systems. Some of these factors are genetic, and irreversible. Thus there is a limit beyond which infant mortality cannot be reduced. Nonetheless, 320 U.S. counties have achieved a lower rate of 18.3 deaths per 1,000 births. Poor maternal health, malnutrition, inadequate sanitation and illegitimacy, predictably most prevalent in low-income communities, are also important factors. In Holland and Denmark, which have had a virtually uninterrupted decline in infant mortality since...
...samples will have more freedom. Protected by an ingenious "biological barrier"-a system of vacuum chambers, pneumatic transfer tubes, decontamination locks and "glove boxes"-they will be able to enter and leave their area of the LRL during the quarantine period, examining the lunar material without ever coming in direct contact with it or the astronauts. The samples, maintained in a constant vacuum to protect them from terrestrial contamination, will be analyzed in LRL biology, chemistry, mass-spectrometer and gamma-ray spectroscopy labs. Tiny amounts of moon material will be injected into germfree mice, which will then be observed...
...hours before anyone else from an agent who threw his dispatches over a liner's rail at Southampton. Before too long, however, the service will be associated with images much closer at hand. Last September, for the first time, Reuters started offering U.S. news to subscrib ers in direct competition with A.P. and U.P.I. This January it will launch a U.S. financial news wire in competition with Dow-Jones. "The U.S. is the biggest news producer and consumer in the world," says Reuters General Manager Gerald Long. "I have always believed...