Word: indirections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pentagon is usually singled out as an overbloated tax eater, but there are many others. The federal highway system, by the time it is finished in the late 1970s, will have consumed $76.3 billion. That is only direct cost; indirect costs include increased air pollution resulting from more driving, as well as the destruction of much housing for the urban poor in Baltimore, Detroit and other cities to make room for new freeways. Meanwhile, mass-transportation systems that could move people more efficiently have been starved for funds. In the Washington, D.C., area, the National
...have that decision vindicated by an outside body. In recognition of these potential biases you stipulated that no member of the GSD Faculty could serve on this committee. Yet the nomination and election procedures were to be totally in your hands. This, I submit, retains a critical, although indirect, bias in the entire proceeding, one which seems to me repugnant to any true meaning of an impartial appeal. You have nonetheless insisted on adhering to that procedure, appending at various points a few procedural safeguards and concessions to my rights in order to introduce a modicum of fairness to those...
Though only indirect evidence has been found in lunar rocks, the moon apparently once had a magnetic field. Finally, the differences in composition between the lunar highlands and the moon's maria are somewhat similar to those between the earth's relatively lightweight continents and its denser deep-sea floor...
Government statistics yield ample evidence of the extent to which the Lao economy is dependent on foreign assistance. Only 40 per cent of the Lao budget is raised locally--and seven-eights of this is through indirect taxes. The military and police get nearly 60 per cent of the budget, About two per cent goes to development...
...Administration openly struck one bargain with Hoffa: his commutation requires that he "not engage in the direct or indirect management of any labor organization prior to March 1980." By then, he will...