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Word: directer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some cases, that influence is direct and unquestioned. The Brown, Yale and Princeton student governments, for instance, may spend several thousand dollars in student activities fees that all students must pay. Usually this money supports student organizations and funds social and cultural events...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: Governing The Ivies | 11/17/1977 | See Source »

...House, the legislature's leading anti-abortion crusader started spouting Biblical injunctions as soon as Lewis explained his purpose. Lewis hates that at least 70 per cent of all American males have visited a prostitute, and says that the percentage is higher among politicians. Weeks is a little more direct: "We went to lobby. It was a riot because all the guys were tricks...

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: The Oldest Profession Organizes | 11/16/1977 | See Source »

...chief might be uneasy about blowing the cover of a current operation or exposing the methods and personnel of past projects. Despite the Helms case, drawing the line between an ultimate public accounting and a current operational imperative will always remain a difficult task for those who direct clandestine operations abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Helms Makes a Deal | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

Barghoorn and Knoll believe that their primitive fossils-the oldest direct evidence of terrestrial life-are the ancestors of modern blue-green algae or photosynthetic bacteria, both of which convert carbon dioxide into food and oxygen. If they are correct, these organisms 3.5 billion years ago were already pumping into the atmosphere the oxygen upon which most of today's terrestrial life now depends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Dawn of Life | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...Carter administration, therefore, should cease development of the MX and direct its efforts instead to obtaining a balanced and stable deterrent through negotiations with the Soviet Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Doctor Strangelove's Revenge | 11/10/1977 | See Source »

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