Word: indirect
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...have obscured the real reasons for this war: oil and U.S. global domination. Iraq contains about 11 percent of the world’s oil reserves. Oil is the world’s most important commodity, essential to all economies and militaries. U.S. control of Iraqi oil, even if indirect, would provide a major lever of power over Europe, Japan, China, Russia and any future rivals. It would also significantly decrease the power of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to influence oil prices and supplies. As a by-product, Bush, Cheney, other administration members and their cronies involved...
...We’re a group of concerned citizens who have written letters to Congress, taken every form of indirect action,” she said. “We think it’s time for some direct action...
...suspect that the classroom will be with us longer than some of us have suggested,” he said. “It is less easy for remote, indirect experience to replace the communal experience than we suppose...
...policy changes. Their decisions demonstrate a thoughtful commitment to applicants, especially considering that the new policy may, in the short-term, hurt Yale and Stanford by causing them to lose students whom they accepted early, either to Harvard or other colleges which offer better financial aid packages. As an indirect result, ending Early Decision could lower both colleges’ rankings in comparisons that use yield—the percentage of accepted students who actually matriculate—as a criterion...
...article also noted that, since blacks are three times as likely as whites to come from families living below the poverty level, data on Pell Grant recipients provides indirect information about the number of black students at a given school...