Word: directe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least $3 billion in aid and a major rescheduling of Poland's debt. Hungarian banker and businessman Sandor Demjan, in a gesture that was at once magnanimous and a bit slighting (as well as rather amazing), told the New York Times that he would match the $25 million in direct U.S. economic aid. The $145 million in Bush's gift bag for easing Poland and Hungary away from Communism was dwarfed last week by the $70 billion the Air Force requested for the Stealth bomber program and by the $43 billion for the Third World that Japan offered...
...decline of Moscow's influence over Eastern Europe is the direct consequence of its postwar failures. The economic system the Kremlin imposed has been a disaster, and its oppressive political embrace has engendered seething resentments...
Maloney said that the the governor's direct veto would cost Cambridge $1.57 million in state funding and that the entire package of budget costs would amount to $3.3 million less for the city...
Maloney said the direct veto would cost the city $1.57 million, and estimated that the total cost of the cuts would be about $3.3 million...
...power lines. A study in California found that pregnant women who worked on video-display terminals for 20 hours or more a week had twice the risk of miscarrying as other clerical workers. Such findings are suggestive, but the researchers admit that their work does not establish a direct cause-effect relationship...