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They apparently were urging concision, simplicity, "making our eloquence more direct," as Mr. Gerson said.

Another US attack breaks down with a free kick for North Korea, that they launch long - they're becoming more direct as the game goes on.

(Sometimes, the aims are more direct, as with the title of the Stanford professor Robert Sutton's influential 2007 civility manual, "The No Asshole Rule").

In later years Voltaire's onslaught upon the power of the Roman Catholic church became more direct, as he denounced its doctrines and practices in countless pamphlets and the Dictionnaire philosophique (1764; Philosophical Dictionary), the vade mecum of Voltairean attitudes.

Prof Ian Arbon, at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, which in 2014 called energy storage the "missing link" in the UK's energy plans, is even more direct: "As a nation we are nowhere near where we should be on energy storage.

In "Get It Over With," a track off her just-released album "Unapologetic" (her seventh album in seven years, but her first Billboard No. 1), she is more direct as she sings: "It's all right, we can roll in the clouds/ Getting high, we can float in the clouds".

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Do you agree with Bruno Bettelheim who, writes Robert Storr, "recommended that we set out to become dedicated ABD (all-but-degree) students of everything that excited our minds," or do you think students should be much more directed, as they are in traditional schools?

We have reached out to Google for more direct comment, as well as to Olswang, and will update this post as we learn more.

Of course, it takes more time, but it's also much more direct and – as far as television ever can be – "natural".

There are hard questions and very legitimate barriers and obstacles to changing portfolios toward more direct investments, as well as emerging solutions.

And there are more direct records as well.

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