Word: directionally
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...ministry worker with a blond bristle of a moustache, he spent much of his career working in the Russian Embassy in Turkey. In his Kremlin office, he sat in an oversize armchair next to mine and smoked Marlboro Reds. In all, he came off as far more informal and direct than a Western counterpart would be. He spoke for over an hour, interrupting the conversation only for an occasional hacking cough or to answer calls as they came in, every few minutes, on his new iPhone. With elections on the way, a series of heated geopolitical statements to spin...
...because there is a certain desperate fear that academic life elsewhere is less challenging, less intense, and less interesting. This is not only untrue, but it is an insidious subplot at a university whose alumni continually go on to affect the world’s course in powerful and direct ways...
...House without a Currier resident to recognize them. They also spoke of the negligible help offered by an unarmed, older guard and the lack of a full explanation from the House’s leadership.“What we’re all hoping for is a direct address from the House masters... where they explain exactly their vision for Currier and sort of the reasons why they changed these security measures because that would be treating us like adults and not just imposing things as though we’re kindergartners,” Cleo D. M. Leung...
...pieces representing different presumed levels of risk. In the process, the nonbank financial institutions buying these "structured credit products" - hedge funds and other supposedly sophisticated players - replaced banks as the engines of credit creation in recent years. Unlike banks, however, these institutions lack deposit insurance and do not have direct access to central bank lender-of-last-resort safety nets. When the quantitative models used to measure default risk on the new mortgage-backed instruments vastly underestimated actual delinquencies, many of these investors found themselves with unexpected losses. Concern about just how far these losses extend - and whether major financial...
...them. In a paper published in Science Express on Sept. 6, the group reported that one pathogen-- the recently discovered Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV)--was present in more than 90% of the samples, indicating that IAPV might be at least a good marker for CCD, if not a direct cause...