Word: indirect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...empasized that the link between television and the disease is likely an indirect one, influenced by other health factors tied to frequent TV viewing...
...Nowadays, university presidents aren't thoughtto speak out as much as they used to. It isn'tthat Neil makes major policy pronouncements, butthere is work done in a more indirect way,"Armstrong says...
Many popular diets recommend limiting the consumption of eggs, but these recommendations are often based on indirect evidence, according to SPH Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition Meir J. Stampfer, another author of the study...
...denunciation. No sanctions. No bombing. No indignant speeches about ethnic cleansing and the slaughter of innocents. In fact, in justifying the current bombing of Serbia, Clinton made an indirect reference to this Croatian campaign when he credited the "courageous people in Bosnia and in Croatia" who "fought back" against the Serbs and "helped to end the war." Indeed, they did. Croatia's savage ethnic cleansing so demoralized the Serbs that they soon agreed to sign the Dayton peace accord...
...there was only indirect evidence of communal hunting in Paleolithic times until archaeologist Olga Soffer came across the kind of clue that, a gender traditionalist might say, it took a womanly eye to notice. While sifting through clay fragments from the Paleolithic site of Pavlov in what is now the Czech Republic, she found a series of parallel lines impressed on some of the clay surfaces--evidence of woven fibers from about 25,000 years ago. Intrigued to find signs of weaving from this early date, Soffer and her colleagues examined 8,400 more clay fragments from the same...