Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's more popular days, McNamara was a lightning rod for criticism. Now he had become a more direct conductor into the White House on the eve of a very tough election-year battle. He is too intelligent not to have realized this and not to recognize that he had lost a mite of the influence he had previously commanded...
...strike and imprison their employers in their offices. To oust the Reds, Congress threw its support to a defecting coalition minister, who formed a new government. In Haryana, the legislators switched parties with such rapidity that the workings of the government were paralyzed. New Delhi placed the state under direct "President's rule" and ordered new elections to be held after a one-year cooling-off period. Though two religious parties managed to form a fairly strong coalition in the Punjab, the Congress Party successfully brought down the coalition by offering to throw its support to a Sikh minister...
...Faculty to scrap the requirement. Another possibility is a recommendation to retain the requirement but direct the Administrative Board to be liberal in granting exemptions...
...Fisk organ, however, the keys make direct physical contact with the pipes. This mechanical action allows the organist greater control over a more brilliantly colored sound. With its 48 stops--knobs pulled to activate one or more ranks of pipes--and 75 ranks, the instrument "spoils you for playing any other," Ferris said...
Others at Harvard don't see the situation quite that politically. "Research budgets can be cut especially easily in Washington," Kistiakowsky said, "because science is not considered politically powerful. That is way,when we are in times of financial stringency such as we are now as a direct result of the war, research allocations are usually...