Word: indirectly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...release of Jacobsen took place as a result of indirect U.S.-Iranian negotiations which were conducted through a third party as well as negotiations between [Anglican church envoy] Terry Waite and circles close to the kidnappers," unidentified sources were quoted as telling Al-Qabas...
Interview Format: It can range from a very structured, direct interview in which the interviewer has prepared questions, to an indirect interview in which the interviewer sits back and lets the conversation follow its own course...
Meetings with the Lyolyas are the occasions when correspondents most frequently come into indirect contact with the KGB's Second Main Directorate, the unit in charge of watching -- and sometimes entrapping -- foreigners. The encounters are always a little unnerving. KGB agents often tail known dissidents to watch and photograph those they meet. Or the KGB will suborn the dissidents, compelling them to pass on incriminating material or encourage incriminating activity -- as probably happened in the Daniloff case. Sometimes supposed dissidents are actually KGB agents or paid informers assigned to compromise correspondents...
...poorly trained National Guard and Air National Guard have been transformed into an efficient and indispensable component of the nation's military. Increasingly, the Pentagon is calling on the Guard for national service. During the past few years, Guard units have improved roads and bridges in Honduras in indirect support of the U.S.-backed contras fighting in Nicaragua. When President Reagan sent U.S. aircraft into harm's way, Guard pilots flew the tankers that refueled the American F-111s bound for the strike against Libya. The Guard also helped rescue American students in Grenada. The upgrading of the Guard stems...
Fifty years ago, Harvard was commemorated in asimilar, though indirect way, when a stampfeaturing then-President Charles W. Eliot (Classof 1853) was issued. In 1936, President FranklinDelano Roosevelt '04 blocked a move to issue aHarvard stamp out of fear he might be accused offavoring his alma mater.CrimsonHector I. OsarioFormer Postmaster General ALBERT V. CASEY'43, President DEREK C. BOK and Kennedy SchoolDean GRAHAM T. ALLISON...