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Word: indirections (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...considerable controversy, at least, in Laos. "Our mission was much inflated," says Jack Maury. "Covert operations can support but not substitute for overt policies. You are not going to change the course of history by cloak and dagger." Ray Cline feels that the CIA is "better at subtle, indirect methods. It is late in the game when you have to shoot someone to get your way. The basic function of covert action is to tell people how to run a stable political system and how to deal with threats to that stability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Strengthening the CIA | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...every person in our society," lends itself to the cynical misinterpretation that good psychotherapy is too expensive for the average person. On the contrary, it is too expensive for society not to provide good psychiatric care for all who need it. Failure to do so results in far greater indirect costs to society in terms of increased medical expenses, absenteeism, child abuse, delinquency, crime and alcoholism, among other problems. The shorter-term treatments that I and others have been advocating for some (not all) conditions are not inferior substitutes, but actually more effective ways of achieving desired therapeutic objectives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 23, 1979 | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...industry and labor. Thousands of Americans are out of jobs because many of the countries that received aid in the past and many that are still receiving it are underselling our suppliers in such items as electronics, textiles, clothing, steel, copper, shoes and automobiles. Foreign aid is an indirect subsidy to our competitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 16, 1979 | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...Islamic Council of Europe, feels that the present resurgence is considered "retrograde and reactionary" because Westerners confuse what is happening in Islam with a revival of Christian fundamentalism. "Not only is this a baseless and arrogant assumption," says Azzam, but it is tantamount to "a return to colonialism?indirect but of a more profound type." Defenders of the faith further argue that Islam is not monolithic, that it is compatible with various social and economic systems, and that far from being a return to the Dark Ages, it is wholly consonant with progress. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World of Islam | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...education it imparts to students." If what he says is true, then the President's real message to the students of Harvard is that small acts of moral daring are, at times like this, futile. When he tells us that we are "naive" and "must all be linked in indirect and innumerable ways to the wrongs of the world--through the goods we buy, the taxes we pay, the services we use, the investments we make," he is teaching us to have what Lawrence Goodwin, professor of history at Duke, called "grace in the face of corruption." Bok has told...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: A Matter of Conscience | 4/14/1979 | See Source »

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