Word: indirectly
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Although the visitors held something of a territorial advantage in the first half, they never mounted any sort of testing attack against the Cliffe defense. A few short corners, equivilent to an indirect penalty kick in soccer, went by the board for SMU as Radcliffe cage tender and co-Captain Carlene Rhodes hung tough in goal...
...Soviet grain agreement does follow that pattern, its effect in holding down price increases would at best be long-run and indirect. Assurance of a continuing Soviet market might encourage U.S. farmers to plant more crops. Also, building up of a Soviet grain reserve might discourage sudden and inflationary purchases when Russian crops fail. But nothing in the Japanese agreement prohibits additional purchases beyond the agreed minimum, and it is likely that a Soviet agreement would not do so either. Whatever the terms of a U.S.-Soviet arrangement, they are expected to be worked out quickly; talks among lower-level...
...nature because it is an entrenched institution in a conservative nation. From the days of John reed and W.E.B. DuBois '90, who said he was always considered "a nigger on the team" here, people have complained about Harvard's white male ambience. And the University has also had an indirect role in political battles that could hardly be called liberal--from President A. Lawrence Lowell's calls for Sacco and Vanzetti's execution to Henry Kissinger's departure from the Government Department to oversee the Vietnam War. For all its eccentricity Harvard has never been greatly at odds with mainstream...
...Profile. When Soares quit the Cabinet in mid-July, triggering the recent political crisis, his indirect aim was to topple the pro-Communist Gonçalves. At that time, Soares believed that a majority of the Revolutionary Council sympathized with the moderates and were outraged by Gonçalves' ineptness as an administrator and his increasingly close relations with Communist Party Boss Cunhal. Whether or not this assessment was correct, Soares seems to have overplayed his hand. At a mammoth rally of 50,000 Socialist supporters in Lisbon, he demanded the ouster of Gonçalves. Apparently viewing...
Steiner said that his fear of what the protestors might do, an "indirect effect" of the demonstration, caused him to lock all files in the building, and that several secretaries left Mass Hall around noon because of noise and nervousness...