Word: indirections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another of Orwell's close friends, Stephen Spender, became an editor of the CCF's magazine, Encounter--subsidized throughout its existence by indirect grants from the CIA. Christopher Lasch, who chronicled the history of CCF in his essay "The Cultural Cold War," gives this capsule description of Encounter's editorial policy during the fifties...
Sometimes murder can be indirect, an act that Psychoanalyst Joost Meerloo calls psychic homicide: consciously or unconsciously, the murderer pushes someone into suicide. Meerloo cites an engineer who had struggled "all his life with a harsh, domineering and alcoholic father." On a final visit, he took along a bottle of barbiturates, suggesting that they could "cure" his father's addiction. In combination with alcohol, the prescription was fatal...
Lang's plight is anything but unique. There are anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 children like him in South Viet Nam. Some are the direct casualties of deadly ordnance fired by both sides. Others are indirect victims, burned while trying to use jet fuel for cooking, scarred by a wasting sickness called noma which is brought on by malnutrition, or crippled by other diseases that might be brought under control during peacetime. But Lang is a little luckier than most. He is being treated at the Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Saigon, the only place...
...James Hillier, an RCA executive vice president for research and engineering: "Every manager knows that the direct cost of repairing a defect after a product is sold tends to be anywhere from 20 to 50 times greater than the cost of repairing it in the factory. The additional and indirect cost arising from loss of customer support is much higher...
Some tax favors reward actions that once seemed socially desirable, like the bearing of many children and the buying of single-family houses. It is questionable whether such goals should still be encouraged. If so, they should be promoted by direct subsidy. Indirect subsidies handed out through the tax system are extremely expensive and lead to ludicrous distortions. For example, the Federal Government last year in effect paid 70% of the mortgage interest and property taxes on the home of a couple who had a $200,000 annual income, but it paid only 19% of the interest and taxes...