Word: indirectly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Banner is certainly the most effective news medium operating in the black community, but as Miller readily admits, whatever influence it exerts is almost impossible to measure. "I would say that whatever influence we do have is indirect. We inspire people to act or take a certain stance on a certain issue." Miller says...
...fact, Wall Street is no longer a club for the self-satisfied rich. An estimated 26 million Americans own stock directly, and 75 million more have an indirect stake through mutual funds and profit-sharing and pension plans. In the Cabinet Committee on Economics, the stock market is occasionally a topic for jokes-and some nervous laughter. To one out of two Americans, the subject right now is not very funny...
...left 25 cabinets filled with personal memorabilia. These documents, Holton writes in the American Journal of Physics, include a number of letters in which Einstein speaks of the influence of the experiment on the formulation of his theory: this influence is always described in such words as "negligible," "rather indirect" or "not decisive." Furthermore, toward the end of his life, Einstein appears to have become increasingly determined to demolish the myth. In an unpublished letter written only a year before his death, Einstein said: "I even do not remember if I knew of [the experiment] at all when I wrote...
...only debate on the committee plan centered on the system for choosing the student members. The Fainsod Report suggested a process of indirect election, by which the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee would select student members for the Committee on Undergraduate Education, and the Haryard Undergraduate Council would choose students for the Committee on House and Undergraduate Life...
...Hall turmoil and permitted no statement of qualifications or political views. They were, as the CRIMSON pointed out at the time, elections in name only. The students were denied any grounds for choice. The three students on the Committee now represent what can only be considered the ultimate in indirect non-election. Unfortunately, it would make little difference if the students were elected by a direct election next week, for a majority, three administrators and two Faculty members, is enough to convict and sentence on the Committee...