Word: indirect
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...could crack wise about the city in which their institution of lower learning is located, but that would do an indirect disservice to the University of New Haven, which should not be lumped with such a dismal city and a dismal university...
...exploring opportunities to provide more services to students through UC Books that will also generate revenue," Gusmorino says. "The money that students are saving on books will go back into the Harvard community. That's kind of an indirect way of getting funding for student groups...
...Terrier offense came out fast and furious, capitalizing on indirect corners to score the game's first two goals. At the beginning of the second half, the Terriers added another goal to improve their lead...
...direct and indirect effects of fire reduce moisture and rainfall and further enhance the prospects of more burning. Cleared land releases less water to the skies than forest does, while smoke inhibits rainfall by saturating the air with vast numbers of tiny particles, each of which can become the basis of a water droplet. But the droplets remain tiny, and do not become heavy enough to fall to the ground, according to a study by David Rosenfeld at Israel?s Jerusalem University. Instead, they stay in the sky, in effect as sterile clouds. This enhances the prospects of more fire...
...technology companies--places like Phoenix, Ariz.; Denver; Boston; Portland, Ore.; Fort Worth and Austin, Texas--also happen to be the cities with the fastest-rising house prices. "This is no coincidence," says Ross DeVol, an economist at the Milken Institute in Los Angeles, a nonprofit think tank. "The indirect effect of [dotcoms'] being there is that landlords jack up the rates on everyone else. It's out of control...