Word: indirection
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...begin with Villa. Through most of the 1990s, he was president, chief executive officer and indirect owner of 99.5% of the stock of H.J. Meyers & Co., Inc., a brokerage firm based in Rochester, N.Y., with branch offices in more than a dozen cities. H.J. Meyers was a boiler room. Its most significant feature, according to an investigation by Massachusetts securities authorities, "was the high-pressure tactics of management continually exerted on brokers, who then used high-pressure tactics on their customers." Brokers cold-called people urging them to invest in speculative securities and initial public offerings underwritten by the firm...
...enough milk to make them edible) and All-Bran for Katherine (with Sweet'n Low because of her diabetes, half a banana, whole milk to encourage weight maintenance)." This is probably too much of a good thing. For the most part, though, MotherKind marshals details in a passionate but indirect evocation of loss...
Finally, telecommuting is often touted as an indirect benefit for parents of sick children. Says a New York City lawyer who occasionally works from home when one of his three kids is sick and his wife has to work: "It's a lousy way to spend a workday, but I'm glad I have a job that gives me the freedom to do it when it's essential." Several years ago, his employer started offering in-home care for sick kids, but he never signed up for the service, and he hopes he never...
...what extent are indirect claims admissible? 10 pages...
...four-member Hawaiian congressional delegation sent a letter to Kantor saying they were prepared to talk about possible "international courses of action" against the E.U. As America's only state producing bananas--most were grown for consumption on the islands--Hawaii had an indirect stake in the outcome of the banana war; because Chiquita, Dole and other producers had flooded the European market, tariffs notwithstanding, the overflow had found its way back into the U.S., driving down retail prices...