* Direct Marketing Association, a trade organization

When logrolling occurs within a Direct Democracy, a few individuals vote openly, and votes are easy to trade, rearrange, and observe.

Direct maritime trade between Europe and China started in the 16th century, after the Portuguese established the settlement of Goa, India in December 1510, and thereafter that of Macau in southern China in 1557.

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

Direct Marketing Associations are national trade organizations that seek to advance all forms of direct marketing.

23 direct marketing trade associations from five continents established an International Federation of Direct Marketing Associations.

Direct action activities such as this, which usually ended in violence, became the stock in trade of the BM during its early days.

The site is home to Direct Energy Centre ( formerly the National Trade Centre ), Canada's largest trade centre, and Ricoh Coliseum, home to the American Hockey League's Toronto Marlies.

While the Tasmanian Government has thrown its support into the project and believes the Direct Factory Outlet will drive retail trade growth, the Hobart City Council and a large amount of retail shop owners in the Hobart Central Business District have expressed fear of losing business.

Direct trading between two players is also possible, and in the trade chat channel users can auction items and advertise shops.

* Direct diffusion is when two cultures are very close to each other, resulting in intermarriage, trade, and even warfare.

With the demise of the Woolworths Group in January 2009, Shop Direct purchased rights to children's clothing brand Ladybird along with the Woolworths trade name from the administrators. The takeover of the Woolworths brand by Shop Direct was announced on 2 February 2009, and the new online retailer began trading on 25 June that year.

" The Batman Beyond cameo was enough to garner a DC Direct action figure, the character's first in years, listed as " Tim Drake "; However, the writers admitted to the mistake of misnaming the character, and although the name was rumored to be changed to " Terry " in the trade paperback, it still reads " Tim " ( see first page of " Smoke and Mirrors " chapter in the trade paperback ).

Direct forms of regulation include cap and trade systems, extraction quotas, and severance taxes.

Direct trade links between the Mediterranean lands and India had been established in the 1st century BC, after Greek navigators learned to use the regular pattern of the monsoon winds for their trade voyages in the Indian Ocean.

In 2004 Zarin Patel was declared " Client Marketer of the Year " by Precision Marketing, a London based Direct Marketing trade magazine.

At the beginning of the American Civil War he helped organize the Board of Direct Trade to ensure Confederate trade to Europe was not disrupted.

In 1985 he was appointed to head Direct Service Industries, a trade association of aluminum companies in the Northwest that received power directly from the Bonneville Power Administration.

Organisations that had previously opposed British nuclear weapons supported CND, including the British Peace Committee, the Direct Action Committee, the National Committee for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Tests and the Quakers.

Direct negotiations to determine the permanent status of Gaza and the West Bank had begun in September 1999 after a three-year hiatus, but have been derailed by the al-Aqsa Intifada that began in September 2000.

Direct funding of the Contras insurgency had been made illegal through the Boland Amendment, the name given to three U. S. legislative amendments between 1982 and 1984 aimed at limiting US government assistance to the Contras militants.

Direct tracings of the vibrations of sound-producing objects such as tuning forks had been made by English physician Thomas Young in 1807, but the first known device for recording airborne speech, music and other sounds is the phonautograph, patented in 1857 by French typesetter and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.

This is a collection of fifteen selected non-fiction entries that had been published in Analog magazine over the years ; it includes five articles authored or co-authored by Zubrin, including " The Hypersonic Skyhook ", " Mars Direct: A Proposal for the Rapid Exploration and Colonization of the Red Planet " ( co-authored with David A. Baker ), " Colonizing the Outer Solar System ", " Terraforming Mars " ( co-authored with Christopher McKay ), and " The Magnetic Sail ".

He had been outraged by Jinnah's Direct Action campaign, which had provoked communal violence across India and by the viceroy's vetoes of his home department's plans to stop the violence on the grounds of constitutionality.

Borders Group announced on July 1, 2011, that it had found a bidder, Direct Brands, that would acquire the assets for $ 215 million and the assumption of $ 220 million in debt.

Direct astrophotography had an early role in sky surveys and star classification but over time it has given way to more sophisticated equipment and techniques designed for specific fields of scientific research, with film ( and later astronomical CCD cameras ) becoming just one of many forms of sensor.

Direct telegraph transmission was not possible because the British had cut the German cables in the Atlantic.

To expanding its retail banking business overseas, rather than create a branch network, it used the direct banking business model it had develop with NMB Postbank to launch an overseas direct banking businesses called ING Direct.

As recently as July 2011, ING Direct Canada had over 1. 7 million clients, employed over 900 people and had over US $ 37. 6 billion in assets.

On 2 February 2009 it was announced that the brothers ' Shop Direct Group had purchased the Woolworths and Ladybird brand names for an undisclosed amount, from the failed Woolworths Group's administrators Deloitte.

A survey by British insurance company Direct Line found that 58 % of families played I spy, and 65 % of the parents consulted had played it on journeys as a child.

Shaw Direct is a direct broadcast satellite television distributor in Canada which is majority-owned by cable TV operator Shaw Communications Inc. As of 2010, Shaw Direct had over 900, 000 subscribers.

Kodak's chemistry kit for reversing Panatomic-X (" Direct Positive Film Developing Outfit ") used sodium bisulfate in place of sulfuric acid in the bleach, and used a fogging developer that was inherently unstable, and had to be mixed and used within a two hour period.

In 1983, Northwestern Bell and AT & T in conjunction with Telesystems and First Data Resources / WATS Marketing, developed a method to use Direct Inward Dialing ( DID ) to handle traffic so call centers no longer had to have dedicated lines or trunk groups as they are called, to handle each telephone number.

Shortly after take off, XM598, commanded by Squadron Leader John Reeve, suffered a pressurisation failure ( a rubber seal on the " Direct Vision " side window had perished ) and was forced to return to Ascension.

; Direct frequency synthesis: Early channelized communication radios had multiple crystals-one for each channel on which they could operate.

Direct Rule did not mean that the people of Northern Ireland had no democratic say in how they were governed ; like other parts of the United Kingdom they elected ( and still elect ) members of parliament to the Parliament of the United Kingdom to which the Northern Ireland Office is responsible.

* Direct railway via Kilmarnock: the Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway, opened on 26 June 1873, and operated as a joint line with the Caledonian Railway ( CR ); it had been the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilson Direct Railway, with a Kilmarnock " extension ".

Direct appointment by the central government exists in Belgium and the Netherlands, and has existed in Norway and Sweden ( see below ).

Direct action tactics have been around for as long as conflicts have existed but it is not known when the term first appeared.

The company is owned by New Jersey-based group Hanover Direct, and has existed since the late 1970s.

The DAAA Collective, or Direct Action Anti-Authoritarians, was an anarchist and anti-authoritarian collective based out of the Central Valley city of Modesto in California, that existed from the summer of 2003, until they disbanded at the end of 2006.