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Interview Format. It can range from a very structured, direct interview in which the interviewer has prepared questions to an indirect interview in which the interviewer sits back and lets the conversation follow its own course...
Ever since these vast comet nurseries were first proposed four decades ago, the only evidence for them has been indirect and theoretical. At last there is something concrete. A tiny reddish spot of light recorded on a sensitive electronic detector in Hawaii last month appears to be the first component of the Kuiper belt ever observed. The body, known for now as 1992 QB1, is about 200 km (120 miles) across, and a preliminary calculation puts it at more than 5.1 billion km (3.2 billion miles) away. That doesn't necessarily make it the most remote object in the solar...
While the Crimson had kept up constant pressure in the Huskies' end, but had failed to convert on a number of opportunites, including several corner and indirect kicks...
...released in the trial of Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, moreover, show that the U.S. government offered Honduras increased economic, military and covert support in exchange for Honduran military aid to the contras. This quid-pro-quo arrangement, whose existence Bush explicitly denied in 1989, violated the congressional ban on indirect U.S. military assistance to the rebels. Documents obtained by TIME show that Reagan approved the deal and that a copy of the memo authorizing it went to Bush. Bush "concurred" in the stepped-up CIA funding that was part of the deal. And he personally gave the President of Honduras...
...feel that this appeal of mine is finding a positive echo, but a very indirect one. Here, as in every democracy, we witness all the aspirations, ambitions, battles and hunger for power. My position seems to be the one of a dreamer who mumbles something about ideals, completely untouched by real life, whereas politics takes a different course. But this is a very banal view. In reality it seems to me that my constant repetition of certain things planted seeds. I do see this right now, in the moment when my federal presidency is over. From various sides I seem...