Word: directe
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Ingratiating social-climber Richard Rich (Robert de Neufville) has an altogether different approach to politics. Rich is not ashamed to beg for a post, and he serves as a direct contrast to More, who is living the epitome of the moral life. De Neufville plays the part of the brown-noser so naturally, in fact, that one shudders to think how he would act in section...
School districts with direct nonadministrative costs that are less than 85 percent of the state average receive EEO grants...
There was little danger of interference. Fifty different national audits of the Bank of Crete that might have uncovered the scheme were squelched over the years by PASOK officials, says Koskotas, twice by direct calls from Papandreou. In the summer of 1988, the government muscled through a special Secrecy Act that had the effect of guaranteeing its overdrawn banker financial confidentiality. Koskotas says he was directed to pay an additional $2 million to then Deputy Prime Minister Koutsogiorgas as a reward for managing the legislation...
...weeks later, Koskotas says, the first direct request for money came by telephone from Papandreou. The Prime Minister wanted 200 million drachmas ($1.3 million), purportedly to pay the expenses for a PASOK youth festival. Georgios Louvaris would drop by. In the following months, says Koskotas, Papandreou made two other personal calls for cash, each for 150 million drachmas ($1 million), for what he described as PASOK events. Otherwise the Prime Minister received a weekly delivery of around 75 million drachmas...
...judge ruled that Curran "could not reasonably have expected that the university would defy a definitive judgment by the Holy See that he was 'unsuitable' and 'ineligible' to teach Catholic theology." There was a "direct and unavoidable" conflict, said the court, between academic freedom and the school's fealty to the Pope. The university sided with Rome, and "whether that is ultimately good for the university or for the church is something they have a right to decide for themselves." Heartily agreeing, a Vatican official said the "essential issue was the freedom of the church to regulate teaching of theology...