Word: indirectly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peace initiative, partly because they fear he will fail. Now, apparently, they are having second thoughts. In Beirut last week, a former Lebanese Premier, Saeb Salam, strongly supported Sadat. Since Salam is widely regarded as Riyadh's man in Lebanon, the Arab world interpreted his words as an indirect sign that Saudi Arabia, with its enormous economic powers of persuasion, was moving toward an open endorsement of Egypt's position. That possibility alone should serve to bolster Anwar Sadat's sagging spirits...
...average cost of all Volkswagen models sold in the U.S. last year climbed almost 14%. Computer models of the economy indicate that at present levels increased prices for foreign goods directly add only .2 to .3 percentage points to the U.S. inflation rate. But some economists believe that the indirect impact is greater. Reason: if import prices rise, American companies can increase the price of domestically produced goods that compete against imports, without fear that foreigners will undersell them. Moreover, the dollar is the currency most often used in world oil transactions. Although OPEC has frozen the price...
...last night's fag and took a sip of gin and meth to cut, as she'd have put it, the phlegm." Bowen knew that her style was odd and that it limited her popular appeal. But her manner of writing faithfully reflected the intense but indirect way she looked at the world. She approvingly described one of her novels as being "on the periphery of a passion-or. the intensified reflections of several passions in a darkened mirror...
From an election-season point of view, Boston city councilors have everything to gain by supporting a resolution that asserts, somewhat ungrammatically, "The spiralling property, tax rate of the City of Boston puts undue hardship on city taxpayers, compounding their payments to the city by their indirect subsidization of tax-exempt institutions...
...also rather indirect, at least in the sense that the giant gas producers, which are also the big oil producers -Exxon, Texaco, Standard Oil of Indiana, Mobil and Gulf-struck an above-the-battle pose and rarely got down into the pit themselves. Said David Foster, executive vice president of the Natural Gas Supply Committee, the producer-sponsored lobby that operates on an annual budget of $500,000 to $750,000: "To attempt to lobby this issue on the concerns of the producers of natural gas is an impossibility. When it's your customers who are saying they...