Word: indirectly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...present his annual State of the Union message personally to the Congress, with which he is feuding,-the first such omission by a President since 1956, when Dwight Eisenhower was recovering from a heart attack. Nixon's wholesale dismissal of various Administration officials similarly was accomplished through the indirect device of demanding the resignations of all appointees, then selecting whom to retain, rather than personally calling in the condemned to be fired...
...attempted to exert "political" influence. In 1966 the Internal Revenue Service revoked Christian Echoes' exemption for the same reason, but in 1971 a federal court in Tulsa overruled the IRS. In reversing the Tulsa decision, 3-0, the Denver court prohibited tax-exempt organizations from "direct and indirect appeals to legislators and the public in general"-a sweeping restriction that many churchmen consider unconstitutional. Christian Echoes, backed by the N.C.C. and other church groups, will carry the case to the Supreme Court...
South House voted last month not to send representatives the committee on the grounds that the selection procedure was may indirect and that the student ACSR members would have any real poser...
Dunster House has not yet picked its representatives and South House voted last month not to participate, objecting to the ACSR's lack of definite powers and to the indirect election of its members...
...criteria to extort platitudes and placebos from the national media. Local stations would have to pass muster or fold; even the station managers who agree with Whitehead's philosophy would pressure the networks to share the responsibility for modifying programming in 'line with the President's standards. Through this indirect, but potent mechanism, the press freedom of natural networks would be hedged in by Federal intimidation and fenced in by Federal penalty...