Word: indirection
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...such laws fair to employers? The debate often centers on whether local businesses owe something to the community for the favors they get. Private hotels, restaurants and shops do not usually get city service contracts. But they often receive indirect support from local governments through tax abatements and other subsidies, and living-wage advocates say they should give something back. That argument is heard not only in New Orleans but also in Santa Monica, where the city council wants to impose a $12.25 living wage for employers who don't provide health insurance and a $10.50 wage for those...
...grew up just 15 miles from Harvard Square—although the journey from her home to Harvard has been a long and indirect...
Furthermore, Harvard’s no strike clause is sufficiently vague that it now prevents “boycotts, picketing or any other direct or indirect interference with the University’s operations.” The clause’s wording therefore prohibits even sympathy picketing against UNICCO, a cleaning services contractor which has been involved in labor disputes around the country...
...many of the public school districts in America accusing ex-gay participation in public schools as “harassment.” The Human Rights Campaign demanded that a contributor reconsider her sizeable donation to a children’s school merely because it had indirect ties to an ex-gay ministry...
...Gallo also had an ego that would drive him beyond the realm of the unethical to make him the indirect killer of thousands of people transfused with HIV-tainted blood between 1982 and 1986. In Science Fictions, John Crewdson vilifies Gallo for misleading the world and provides a nearly day-by-day record of the history of HIV and AIDS from the time of their discovery to the present...