Word: directionally
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...when Taiwan held its first direct presidential election, China fired missiles into the strait that separates the island from the mainland in an attempt to bully voters into not supporting the independence-leaning candidate Lee Teng-hui. The act had the opposite effect and instead helped boost support for Lee; he won by a large margin. Since then Beijing has slowly been learning its lesson. "Whenever Taiwan has a big election, if Beijing makes a remark about local politics in Taiwan [it] will have a counterproductive effect," says Andrew Yang, secretary general of the Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies...
...think this guy should do this. I'd go, 'do it.' I was protective of him, so he could get away with the things he wanted to get away with. If you're going to be an actor and you're going to direct, you cannot go into movies, particularly saying, okay I'm going to direct these scenes. You have to surrender to it until you wake up one day and they're not doing their job. Tony never had that. There was never a second of that. The first day he's shooting with Robert Elswit...
Natalie J. Wong ’11 said she enjoyed the opportunity to hear Faust speak in a small venue. “I was surprised how direct she was,” Wong said...
...crowds each day, impressive by normal standards, could not rival Obama's immense events, so staffers were reduced to moving risers and limiting entry to create the appearance of overflow. Conservative fund raisers, meanwhile, were pondering in emails to one another whether to cut Clinton's name from their direct-mail appeals and paste in Obama's. A G.O.P. operative, after watching both party debates on Saturday night, declared, "Well, it's over now. She doesn't have a chance, and neither...
...from the Persian giant. They are inclined to agree with Bush's worries about Iran's nuclear intentions. But they are even more concerned about another U.S. war in the Gulf - this time against Iran, to wipe out its nuclear program. That could bring a swift backlash, either through direct Iranian military retaliation against Washington's regional allies, or in the form of fomenting long-term political unrest and terrorism among Shi'ite minorities in those countries. Arabs were relieved when the recent National Intelligence Estimate on Iran said that the Islamic regime had shelved its nuclear weapons program...