Word: indirectly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after Anna has inexplicably disappeared--to the time when Claudia has fallen quite hopelessly in love with him, the film waits upon his comings and goings. He is the least human character in the film, and easily the less attractive, yet his obnoxiously simple character is also Antioni's indirect way of saying there is nothing rational in Claudia's growing obsession...
...make up for income taxes, governments rely heavily on export-import duties, indirect taxes levied on the manufacture of goods and excise taxes slapped on top of that. The result, in many cases, is a hodgepodge of taxes and tariffs that often discourages industry and holds down consumption...
...mainland there is some clandestine communist agitation, but from my limited and indirect contacts with the shadowy underworld of agents and counteragents, it appeared that the Africans are taking the communists for a ride. There is a small "party" which calls itself the African National Congress, led by Zuberi Mtemvu, a TANU renegade who recently returned from Peiping with fifteen boiler suits and enough money to buy himself a Mercedes- Benz. The Congress polled 60 votes the first time they ran a candidate, and 67 the second time. (The joke runs that Mtemvu's family had increased by seven during...
...issue at the University in the matter of "unreimbursed costs." "In sufficient magnitudes, Federal grants can make a university poorer rather than richer by building up unreimbursed costs (overhead, etc.). More than one Faculty at Harvard has fond it necessary to limit its participation in desirable programs lest their indirect costs drain away its unrestricted income," says Cheever. The report has brought this problem up for debate among those in the community who ought to be concerned...
Some agencies have not felt obliged to pay the full institutional rate for indirect costs, either because they believed that the university ought to share in the expenses or because their scientists wished to have as large a share of the limited funds as possible to direct research costs in their special fields...