Word: indirections
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...elaborate rebuttal does little to demolish the Shipler story's central theme." Scott points out, though, that Shipler might have chosen one key word more carefully. It is difficult to prove that U.S. assistance "directly" supports violations, as Shipler argued. But there can be no doubt about "indirect" support...
...indirect effects have been much more important. The Arabs have been using some of their oil revenues to buy gold. Inflation, fueled largely by oil price increases, has caused other investors around the world to doubt the value of paper money, and they too have been stampeding to buy gold. The price of gold on the world's free markets recently has soared as high as $178 an ounce, more than quadruple the "official" price, and South Africa's gold reefs have produced almost half the gold mined in the world since the dawn of time...
...grown up to be unshakeably unimaginative, and rejects his grandfather's offer of an all-expenses-paid trip around the world. He explains that all he really wants to do is settle down and marry his girl friend. Grandfather promptly expires in a living room chair, overcome by this indirect condemnation of his own life-style, while his family celebrates Michael's engagement with champagne. The Millay family gets more responsible but less interesting with each generation...
...groups, such as the minority legal defense funds who became involved with the briefs have an obvious interest. But what of such organizations as the American Bar Association and the American Association of Law Schools? Past evidence indicates that the interests of these groups are, at best, indirect and spurious...
Perhaps the most universally credited myth is that Watergate was stupid because it was unnecessary. Presumably this is intended as an indirect but effective defense of Mr. Nixon. After all, we are asked, would a campaign so far ahead in the polls perpetrate or permit a burglary of the Democratic National Committee? The President himself has told us not to think that he was that dumb. (A reassurance followed recently by another, when for the first time in history, a president of the United States felt compelled to announce to the nation: "I'm no crook." Mr. Nixon's rhetoric...