Word: indirect
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...relationship between CO2 and climate is clear going back about 800,000 years. Before that, however, it gets murkier. That's largely because ice and air that old haven't yet been found. So scientists rely instead on indirect measurements - and these have led to a climate mystery: some episodes of past warming, including a planetary heat wave about 15 million years ago and another about 3.5 million years ago, seem to have happened without a rise in CO2. No one quite understands why. Maybe other greenhouse gases were the cause - methane, for example. Or maybe...
Other students took a more indirect approach. Juan Felipe Botero, a Harvard Law School student, asked, “What will be your advice to the person who shall replace you as President in less than a year’s time?” The question, which implicitly demanded Uribe step aside for the next election, drew enthusiastic cheers as well as approving laughter from the audience...
...Israel continues to exert substantial and indirect control over the possibility of opening Rafah Crossing and uses that control to exert pressure on the residents of Gaza, as part of a policy of collective punishment," the Gisha report says. Egypt, for its part, "which has the physical capacity to open Rafah Crossing," keeps it closed as the result of outside pressure and a desire to keep Islamist Hamas isolated from Egypt's own opposition groups. Indeed, the collusion between Egypt and Israel was evident on Tuesday. Aid convoys entering through Rafah Gate are diverted to Kerem Shalom to be subject...
...program and finds, counter to objections, that the bill would have a net benefit of as much as $5.2 trillion. The report included a median projection for net benefits of $1.2 trillion and found that even more stringency could actually be more beneficial. Their estimations also ignore all the indirect benefits, such as improved health due to reduced pollution that will accrue from the bill...
...things that I loved most about the campaign was going to Iowa and going door to door and sitting at people's kitchens talking to them in small settings about life and sharing dreams and our stories. That's what service does. It's, you know, that's the indirect but very important outcome of community service is that it forces us out of our comfort zones and into one another's lives in a series of conversations that remind us who we are and why we're all here. And we're all really pushing for the same thing...