Word: directe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more visible we are, the more outraged weget, the more people there are who will come intothe movement," Troop said. "We have to have manyways to direct their energy. We would be sellingourselves short if we don't try to do more...
...Crimson got on the board quickly, scoring its lone tally 3:39 into the game. Off a direct kick from the top of the penalty box, junior midfielder Tracy Hackeling blasted a shot just over the outstretched arms of Yale freshman goalkeeper Tina Pihl...
...would be a mistake to see Woody Allen's obsession with the clarinet as an eccentric hobby or psychological crutch. In ways both direct and indirect, concrete and spiritual, his musician's ear and instincts have helped make him the remarkable artist he is in other domains. "Jazz is a perfect music for him," says Eric Lax, who is writing a book on Allen. "It hates authority. It is a quirky, individual style requiring great discipline to play right. It is all the things that fit his comic character." So play it again, Woody...
...month-old tribal feud between the republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan initially centered on Nagorno-Karabakh, a region within Azerbaijan that contains a majority of ethnic Armenians. Moscow sought to defuse the issue by assuming direct rule of Nagorno-Karabakh, where it has stationed 4,500 troops. But the dispute, which has so far claimed more than 100 lives, will not go away. On the contrary, it has escalated into something very close to civil war. In both republics ferocious animosities generated by the rivalries have brought to the fore nationalist groups threatening secession. Indeed, traveling between the two republics...
Atomic clocks are the world's most accurate timepieces and have important applications in navigation and communication systems. These clocks have also been used to make direct measurements of continental drift, coordinate astronomical observations and test the ability of earth's gravity to slow down time. (It does so at the rate of a second every 10,000 years...