Their goal to " use local resources, travel light, and live off the land " became the hallmark of Mars Direct.

Direct travel was suspended in 2003 as a result of the SARS outbreak, but has since resumed.

It was also a small focus city for the travel marketer Direct Air until the company's demise in 2012.

Direct emissions include all pollution from manufacturing, company owned vehicles and reimbursed travel, livestock and any other source that is directly controlled by the owner.

Sabre, Expedia, Orbitz and some consumer advocates think that American's tactics with Direct Connect are aimed at making fare comparisons harder for online travel sites and for customers.

Direct flights from Caracas and other Venezuelan cities, as well as scheduled or charter flights from a number of North American and European cities, ferries from Puerto La Cruz, Cumaná, and La Guaira also travel to the island.

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.

Direct reciprocity and cooperation in a group can be increased by changing the focus and incentives from intra-group competition to larger scale competitions such as between groups or against the general population.

Although the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, there are important differences between cinéma vérité ( Jean Rouch ) and the North American " Direct Cinema " ( or more accurately " Cinéma direct "), pioneered by, among others, Canadians Allan King, Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault, and Americans Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, Frederick Wiseman and Albert and David Maysles.

The members of the task group were not able to come to an agreement choosing between two technology proposals, Multi-band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing ( MB-OFDM ) and Direct Sequence UWB ( DS-UWB ), on the table backed by two different industry alliances and was withdrawn in January 2006.

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 copying was supported between any two 8-bit registers and between any 8-bit register and an HL-addressed memory cell.

The problems associated with long-term weightlessness would be addressed in the same manner as the baseline Mars Direct plan, a tether between the Dragon habitat and the TMI ( Trans-Mars Injection ) stage acting to allow rotation of the craft.

Direct links between electrotonic coupling and wakefulness were provided by Beck et al.

Direct conflict between the East and West erupted in the Korean War, when the United Nations Security Council, with the absence of the Soviet Union at the time of the vote, voted for international intervention in Korea to stop the civil war.

Direct gap semiconductors are particularly important in optoelectronics because they are much more efficient as light emitters than indirect gap materials ; an electron movnig between two bands need not exchange momentum with phonons in the crystal lattice.

Direct maritime shipping commenced between the two countries in 2008 to supplement rail connections that remained uncertain.

Direct flights between Victoria and the San Francisco Bay Area ( San Francisco, Oakland, Silicon Valley ) began service on June 5, 2008 ( Victoria Times Colonist, February 6, 2008 ).

Direct copying is supported between any two 8-bit registers and between any 8-bit register and a HL-addressed memory cell.

In his 1920 book, Direct Action, William Mellor placed direct action firmly in the struggle between worker and employer for control " over the economic life of society.

NJ Transit currently operates weekday rail service between Netcong and Hoboken Terminal, with service to Penn Station in New York City via Midtown Direct.

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 to Physician-A engagement and transaction channel directly between health care companies and physicians

Direct comparisons between Jōmon and Yayoi skeletons show that the two peoples are noticeably distinguishable.

Direct observation procedures are also used in research, for example to study the relationship between intrapsychic variables and specific target behaviors, or to explore sequences of behavioral interaction.

Then followed the rapid succession of the last Direct Capetian kings of France between 1314 and 1328, the three sons of Philip IV.

* Direct branches of the vertebral artery: The vertebral artery supplies an area between the other two main arteries, including the nucleus solitarius and other sensory nuclei and fibers.

Godalming railway station is on the Portsmouth Direct Line between London ( Waterloo ) and Portsmouth, and is served by South West Trains.

Direct comparison is, however, almost impossible due to the sheer size differences between the two media.

Direct flights to mainland China were an issue of contention.

* Mid-January – Direct flights to China are set to resume for the first time in 40 years after diplomatic talks between the two countries.

Direct international passenger directions ( Trans-Siberian Railway ): Poland, Germany, China, Mongolia.

First, humanity ( namely China, followed by the USA and others ) colonized Mars in a fashion resembling that outlined in the Mars Direct project.

Direct flow is more popular in China.

A few of the other rockets and missiles developed or tested at China Lake have included the Mighty Mouse, Zuni, Sidewinder, Shrike, Joint Stand-Off Weapon ( JSOW ) and Joint Direct Attack Munition ( JDAM ).

The new 21st century Teasmade, STM100, has been manufactured in China by Swan Products since October 2009, and is being sold in many UK retailers including John Lewis and Tesco Direct.

Direct air services are available to Xi ' an on Shanghai Airlines and Beijing on Air China.

While outside of the U. S. client-side account aggregation, provided by technology solutions provider eWise, has been adopted by financial institutions like Citibank and First Direct ( part of HSBC ) in the UK, Ping An in China and Westpac in Australia.

Direct economic losses in China were estimated at 2. 46 million yuan.

Since 2001, Bulgaria has managed to attract considerable amounts of Foreign Direct Investment ( FDI ).

* First Landing ( 2001 ), a hard science fiction novel about a future Mars flight using the Mars Direct plan.

Direct Energy Conversion Fission Reactor: Annual Report For The Period August 15, 2000 Through September 30, 2001

Only two prototypes were ever built, and one was publicly displayed for historical interest at the RISC OS 2001 show in Berkshire, England ; the remaining cases were bought by CTA Direct who sold them off to the public.

The year 2001 marked the 150th Anniversary of the school, and in the same year the school decided to join the Direct Subsidy Scheme, under which the school is given more freedom in the enrollment of students, appointment of teachers and the design of the curriculum.

* Hansen, Ann, Direct Action: Memoirs Of An Urban Guerrilla, AK Press, 2001

Most notably, Robert Zubrin wrote a fictional account of a Mars Direct mission in his novel First Landing ( Ace, 2001 ).

* Dimmig, Jeffrey S. " Palatine Liberty: Pennsylvania German Opposition to the Direct Tax of 1798 ," American Journal of Legal History 2001 45 ( 4 ): 371-390

They also bought life insurance company Colonial Penn later that year, changing their name to Conseco Direct Life, though changing the name back to Colonial Penn in 2001 ( known as Banker's Conseco Life Insurance Company in New York state ).

* Since its national launch in 1994, Interac Direct Payment has become so widespread that, since 2001, more transactions in Canada were completed using debit cards than cash.

A Cyborg figure was released by DC Direct in 2001 as part of its Teen Titans series, and he was also included in the 2003 Classic Teen Titans Box Set, presented in gold bionics as opposed to his standard silver.

He had previously held the positions of President of West Direct, Inc., and President of West Interactive Corporation between July 2001 and August 2006.

Leinster turned professional along with the teams representing the other Irish provinces in 1995 and has competed in the Rabo Direct Pro12 ( formerly known as the Celtic League and the Magners League ) since it was founded in 2001, having previously competed in the annual Irish interprovincial championship.

In 2001 the company's assets were acquired by the audiophile products company Music Direct, of Chicago, operated by Jim Davis.

He returned home to Cheltenham in 2001 to work for local business Target Direct which works mainly with charity clients.

Banco de Oro joined in April 1995, BPI Direct Savings Bank, another BPI subsidiary, joined in 2000, and HSBC Savings Bank, a subsidiary of HSBC, became the latest Expressnet member on April 1, 2001.

The company was formed in 2001, Artistic Direct Amit says " We were fuelled by a shared response to theatre that for years, had left us feeling dulled and uninspired.

In 2001, the magazine Red Pepper wrote that Lobster ".. succeeds on the quality of its writing ... articles are well researched ... human, passionate and honest ...", the Fortean Times wrote that it was "... immensely engrossing reading, ... an essential purchase for anyone interested in the machinations of the secret state ", Green Anarchist magazine wrote that Lobster is "... an invaluable resource, and deserves to be widely read and much studied ", and Direct Action magazine described it as " a good read ... very revealing and worth it, just for the pub talk ".