Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What bothers MODEBRAS most is next October's indirect presidential election. ARENA'S candidate, former War Minister Artur da Costa e Silva, seems certain to win, since the balloting will take place in Congress where the government party has a large majority. MODEBRAS demands direct nationwide balloting for the presidency, but ARENA is not yet prepared to put its popularity to such a test. As a result, the opposition has decided to embarrass Castello Branco by refusing to enter a presidential candidate. Says one MODEBRAS member: "Any sort of opposition candidacy would help the government present itself, particularly...
...really save a life, prevent a hold up, or get aid faster to an accident." If the six-month experiment works out, other Bell systems across the country are expected to follow suit. If so, they will only be catching up. Paris has already begun installing pay phones direct access to the operator in emergencies, and Londoners have long able to get help by simply dialing...
Talk of sea-bottom exploration, aquaculture (underwater agriculture) and even water-breathing, gilled humans used to be dismissed as mere rapture of the deeps. But no longer. By extending his technology from the present 400-ft. levels to 5,000 ft., man may soon gain direct access to the continental shelves and slopes. Potential result: conquest of another 10% of the earth's surface-an area roughly equal to that of the moon...
...this area, Merrill Lynch leads the Wall Street field by miles. By day, its computers direct orders and confirmations to and from trading floors, provide up-to-the-second quotations on 490 over-the-counter stocks and computerized estimates on the value of 2,600 others. By pressing a few buttons on a desk console, a salesman anywhere in the U.S., within five minutes can get back a computerized analysis of the prospects of almost any stock. At night, while human employees rest, computers handle the firm's accounting, run off customer statements, prepare monthly reports, figure margins on individual...
...some jealous enemies as well-for rare was the day that his picture or his name did not appear in the city's newspapers. And whenever Viet Cong terrorists bombed one of the hotels he had turned into military billets, he always rushed to the scene to direct rescue operations and give briefings to newsmen...