Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that during the five days that the smog smothered London, there were 4,000 more deaths than would have occurred under nor mal circumstances. During the next two months, there were another 8,000 excess deaths-most of them apparently caused by respiratory disease-that scientists suspected were a direct result of the killer smog...
...says Pleasants, if only as an antidote to the dulling sameness of the note-perfect performances. A boldly outspoken theorist, Pleasants goes so far as to say that this straitjacket is so confining that some pop vocalists such as Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra, whose jazz improvisations are a direct counterpart of bel canto, are "technically better than most opera singers." The voice of Ella Fitzgerald, whom he regards as the prima donna of pop, "is so naturally placed that she can sing more in a week than most opera singers can in a month." The falsetto wailings...
...President Johnson may suffer loss of support in some quarters as a result of his decision, for a few watchmakers and glass producers will be adversely affected. Generally the move should be beneficial, and some Washington officials estimated that U.S. exports will be increased by $70 million as a direct result of the rollback, thus adding a worthwhile corrective element to the U.S. balance of payments position...
...atmosphere" that favors private initiative. "Only totalitarianism and Communist compulsion," he says, "have succeeded in lifting poverty-stricken countries onto the road of progressive improvement." Balogh's tune has hardly changed a note since the early postwar era, when he proclaimed confidently that only the long continuance of direct economic controls could restore Europe's prosperity...
...Harvard study found a direct correlation between graduation honors and attendance at a graduate school of arts and sciences: the higher the honors, the more likely that kind of grad school. On the other hand, the law school distribution for the class of '66 was quite even throughout the different degrees of honors. Elsewhere, one-third of those going to medical school graduated C.L.G.S. and 48 per cent of those going to business school graduated without honors...