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Word: directe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason the President dislikes the Democratic approach is its cost: $22 billion over the next five years, including $8 billion in direct grants to the states. Another is the conservative belief that the measure is an unwarranted government intrusion into family decision making. House minority whip Newt - Gingrich denounced the bill for being "essentially against mothers staying at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catching Up on Child Care | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...attempting to take their company private for an estimated $6.7 billion. And last June an investor group led by Los Angeles financier Alfred Checchi paid $3.6 billion for No. 4-ranked Northwest Airlines. Of the four largest U.S. carriers, only No. 3, Delta, has yet to take a direct hit in the takeover wars. And its turn may come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes Donald, Duck! | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...mission, which has languished for more than a decade because of technical debates and the Challenger explosion, will be getting under way. Astronauts on Atlantis will release the Galileo spacecraft, setting it on a six-year, 2.5 billion-mile journey to Jupiter. There the probe will take the first direct measurements of the planet's dense clouds and hurricane-like winds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Nuclear Fears About Galileo | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

Klores avoids putting the two brothers into direct conflict over Diamond by making Frank happily married with children. The movie instead focuses on a battle for Jack's soul. On one side is Suzie, representing a passionate love of jazz, the extreme, the bold and the dangerous. On the other is Frank--safe, married, dependable, boring...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Torch Song Trio | 10/13/1989 | See Source »

...junior striker Britton Arico of the University of Connecticut women's soccer team, they are also direct. Arico netted two direct free kicks to power the Huskies' 2-0 victory over Harvard yesterday at Ohiri Field...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Women Booters Topped by UConn, 2-0 | 10/13/1989 | See Source »

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