Word: indirections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economy. It reflects business trends and public expectations in highly exaggerated form, but there is usually enough reality underlying the distortions so that it cannot be ignored. This is especially true now that the market affects the wealth of 100 million Americans, who have at least an indirect stake in stocks through mutual funds, pension funds and insurance policies. For the past three weeks, the market has been projecting a mood of deep nervousness. By last week, eleven straight daily declines had dragged the Dow Jones industrial average down to 836, a fall of about 85 points from early September...
Einstein's prediction has since been backed by indirect experimental evidence. The existence of short-lived sub-atomic particles, for example, seems to be extended when they are speeded up in atom smashers. But there has never been a satisfactory test of the prediction with a clock actually traveling through space. To conduct that test, Hafele, a physicist at Washington University in St. Louis, persuaded the U.S. Naval Observatory to lend him four extremely accurate atomic clocks, each valued at $17,000 and weighing 60 lbs. In addition, the Navy agreed to foot the bill...
Cronin stated that the Council's use of the school building would, in effect, "contribute space free of charge to political candidates and thereby constitute an indirect campaign contribution" by city employees. Further, said Cronin, "Making available public space in a public building is to use such space for a non-municipal function, and worse, a political function." Even though all candidates were invited, he refused to consider the meeting an educational...
...Indirect Influence. Harvard's Fairbank thinks Concerned Committee scholars have stimulated China studies by asking new questions, but he complains that they are "working hard to manufacture a split." There are ideological differences among U.S. China experts, but the scholars' overall impact has been more significant than their squabbles. They anticipated by years the Government's change of heart-and encouraged it at least indirectly. Through articles, speeches and personal contacts, they have helped alter the official view of a decade ago, which saw Chinese communism as ruthlessly totalitarian at home and implacably expansionist abroad. According...
While an earthbound observer could not see such a deeply submerged island of hydrogen, the three men concluded, he probably could detect some indirect evidence of its existence. Because the huge mass would act as a barrier against the hot, rising currents characteristic of the Jovian atmosphere, the area above the solidified hydrogen would be relatively calm and free of the white ammonia clouds that cover much of the planet. As a result, the observer would be able to see much farther into the atmosphere and perceive the deep red at its lower depths...