) Direct levels of assistance to groups with special problems on the labour market ( including low-skilled persons, older unemployed persons, young people, and the long-term unemployed ) through the provision of integration, internship, and continuing education programs, personal guidance and mentoring, and wage subsidies.

* Direct market, the dominant distribution and retail network for North American comic books

There is also a grey market in the United States for Canadian satellite services such as Bell TV or Shaw Direct.

The brothers merged the company with their earlier purchase Shop Direct to form Littlewoods Shop Direct Home Shopping Limited, which operates a majority share of the United Kingdom's home shopping market.

Raiffeisen Bank is a top universal bank on the Romanian market, providing a complete range of products and services to private individuals, SMEs and large corporations via multiple distribution channels: banking outlets ( more than 350 throughout the country ), ATM and EPOS networks, phone-banking ( Raiffeisen Direct ) and mobile-banking ( myBanking ).

In 2002, Texas deregulated the electricity market and Reliant then competed against other energy companies like Direct Energy and TXU Energy.

In 2002, the state of Texas deregulated the Texas electric market, and TXU lost its monopoly on retail electric sales in northern Texas ; TXU now competes statewide against other energy companies like Dynowatt, Texas Power, Reliant Energy, Bounce Energy, Direct Energy, Stream Energy, Gexa Energy, Green Mountain Energy, Cirro Energy, and Commerce Energy.

The online grocery market sector in North America has seen many other failures, including Publix Direct.

Direct marketing relies on being able to address the members of a target market.

DishTV ( a ZEE TV subsidiary ), Tata Sky, Videocon D2H, Sun Network owned ' Sun Direct DTH ', Reliance Digital TV, Bharti Airtel's DTH Service ' Airtel Digital TV ' and the public sector DD Direct Plus. As of 2010, India has the most competitive Direct-broadcast satellite market with 7 operators vying for more than 135 million TV homes.

In 2004, with the deregulation of the retail energy industry in Alberta, ATCO sold the retail operations of ATCO Gas and ATCO Electric to Direct Energy Marketing Ltd .; ATCO Gas and ATCO Electric still operate as " distributors " ( owning and operating the infrastructure that delivers natural gas or electricity in its service territories ) but are no longer in the retail market.

In 2004 Quinn Direct insurance expanded into the UK motor and commercial insurance market.

, DC ++ had around 90 % market share of the Direct Connect community.

Free market economics were encouraged in the Third World, not only as a measure of countering the spread of socialist ideology during the Cold War, but also as a means of fostering FDI ( Foreign Direct Investment ) and to promote access of foreign companies within the OECD nations to certain sectors of target economies.

Centrica also moved into the North American energy-supply market through the acquisition of the Canada-based company Direct Energy in 2000 for £ 406 million.

Their next venture, Direct Holidays, was started in 1991 and gained strength and market share in Scotland, becoming a household name and the largest ' direct sell ' travel company in the UK.

* Foreign Direct Investment ( FDI ) is permitted between countries, or foreigners are permitted to invest in the commercial operations of a country through a stock or corporate bond market

Although only officially produced for the Japanese domestice market, a UK based independent importer Car Imports Direct Ltd, imported over 500 BZ11 / BGZ11 Cubes between 2002 and 2008.

Although Direct Brands shut down music mail-order operations in mid-2009, it continued to use the Columbia House brand to market videos in the U. S. & Canada, selling DVDs and Blu-ray Discs via the controversial practice of negative option billing.

Consequently, market penetration by Direct broadcast satellite providers in the Philadelphia area is much lower than in other cities.

* Direct memory access, a computer feature that allows hardware subsystems to access system memory independent of the CPU

Direct insight into our perception of the occult does not usually consist of access to physically measurable facts, but is arrived at through the mind or the spirit.

Belldandy explains that Skuld uses a type of magic called Direct Manipulation, and has been able to unconsciously access this ability since the very beginning.

Virtual memory combines active RAM and inactive memory on Direct access storage device | DASD to form a large range of contiguous addresses.

For sufficiently capable combinations of hardware and operating systems, X. Org plans to access the video hardware only via the Direct Rendering Infrastructure ( DRI ), using the 3D hardware.

Direct access may refer to:

* Direct access, a concept in computer science

* Direct access storage device, a secondary computer storage device

* Direct access trading, a technology for stock trading

Direct access can be more efficient but is less portable as it depends on the mailbox format ; it is used by some email clients, including some webmail applications.

* Direct access storage device

The access methods for DASD are Sequential, Indexed and Direct.

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* Direct access: the video server has recorded the feeds with a codec that is readable by the editing system, has an Ethernet connection and allows direct editing.

Direct access to those cities is by Forest Hill Boulevard and Keller Road respectively.

Commuters can drive to nearby Morristown to access the New Jersey Transit Midtown Direct express train line into Midtown Manhattan.

* Direct hardware access

In 2006, the divisions Securitas Systems ( alarm, monitoring, and access control systems ), and Securitas Direct ( solutions for homes and small businesses ) were distributed to the group's shareholders and listed at the Stockholm Stock Exchange.

Direct access trading offers substantial improvements in transaction speed and will usually result in better trade execution prices ( reducing the costs of trading ).

* Direct access trading

IBM uses the term data set in official documentation as a synonym of file, and Direct access storage device ( DASD ) because it supported other devices similar to disk drives.