The town is in a direct line between London and the coast.

这个镇在伦敦与海岸之间的直线上。

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After de-layering in this way, a company may be left with just a top level of senior managers, front-line managers and employees with direct contact with the public.

通过这种方式减少层级后，公司可能只剩下最高层管理人员、一线管理人员和与公众直接接触的员工。

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Maybe Archaeopteryx wasn't on the direct ancestral line to birds, but was part of an early experimentation in how to build a bird-like body.

可能‘始祖鸟’不在鸟类的直系血缘上，但它从某些程度上说是早期实验如何构建像鸟一样的身躯的一部分。

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For instance, the bank 80% owned by taxpayers, Royal Bank of Scotland, has announced it is floating some of its US business, Citizens, on the stock market and selling a further stake in the insurer Direct Line.

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Project managers have recently expressed interest in reconfiguring the effort to offer a more direct line for a series of regional wells to the rest of Europe by way of Greece.

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These technologies demanded larger and larger percentages of the corporate budget, so a direct line to the president or CEO was paramount in justifying these spends.

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