Word: indirection
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...never go in and say that we had this idea, and we want to do this," McCall explains. Instead, she and other leaders check in with the locals to see what the community needs, then dispatch volunteers to do the legwork. Voluntourism supporters are quick to point out indirect benefits too. "Americans don't have the best reputation in the world right now," says Doug Cutchins, director of social commitment at Grinnell College and co-author of Volunteer Vacations: Short-Term Adventures That Will Benefit You and Others. "For Americans to get out and represent a different side of America...
...felt like they were reacting more to The Crimson's concerns about indirect investments than our concerns about creating rules that would make companies think twice before beginning to do business in Sudan," Ganong wrote...
...Crimson had reported in January that, despite the decisions to divest from PetroChina and Sinopec—two Chinese oil firms with ties to Sudan—Harvard still maintained indirect holdings in these firms worth more than $16 million through investments in other funds...
...first half of the CCSR report explains the rationale behind the Corporation's now-definitive stand on not divesting from these indirect holdings. The report reasoned that due to lack of control over their makeup and a lack of suitable alternatives, these holdings could not be sold off without incurring substantial losses to Harvard's endowment...
After taking the position with Lula’s government, Unger retracted these criticisms, writing again in Folha de S. Paulo, “I was wrong. The facts demonstrated that the president had no direct or indirect involvement in those episodes...