Word: directionally
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...aspect of the plan that has drawn direct criticism is the idea that a company’s worries about earning a bad reputation from allegations of corrupt governance will act as enough of a check on its power...
...with Dan Aykroyd and Bette Midler hosting, the ceremony was a remarkably fresh and satirical take on dull old awards shows. Because its premise was that the awards themselves were a joke - statuettes went to bands for videos in which they often didn't appear, let alone direct - celebrities were looser and more spontaneous, and so was the show...
...Cameron has postponed planned holidays to keep abreast of the situation and Brown returned after one day of his scheduled break in southwestern England to direct the fight against FMD. In an interview with the BBC the Prime Minister promised "we are doing everything in our power to look at the scientific evidence and to get to the bottom of what has happened and then to eradicate this disease...
...date, most of the direct investments Chinese companies have made abroad have been relatively small, aimed principally at gaining access to key supplies of oil, gas and minerals in Africa and elsewhere. Much of this has gone largely unnoticed. Chinese companies, for example, quietly invested $4.2 billion in Russian companies last year. But some, of course, has been decidedly noticed. The country's investments in Sudan, which increased in early July when China National Petroleum Corp. said it would spend an additional $25 million developing an offshore field there, have become a global flash point given the carnage the Khartoum...
...told the committee even less than Taylor, who as a former employee of the White House had an iota of more freedom to answer frankly. (Taylor went so far as to confirm she did not discuss the firings with Bush and to state she believed he had no direct involvement in them - questions Jennings refused to answer...