Word: indirectly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swoon just before the State of the Union speech; traders bid the Dow Jones industrial average down almost eleven points on a rumor that the President had decided not to run. That only underscored Reagan's popularity among investors. Soviet President Yuri Andropov, of all people, gave Reagan an indirect boost by issuing a generally conciliatory statement hinting at possible resumption of Washington-Moscow nuclear-arms-control negotiations. By Sunday night Reagan was ready for a party. He summoned 400 campaign officials to a 6 p.m. reception in the East Room of the White House, then had them bused...
...control. When the attempt failed, so did the dictatorship. Somewhat the same fate of internal overthrow is feared by the regimes of Syria and Jordan, and to maintain their positions they are expending much of their time and energy to suppress these fundamentalist sects. Israel can now reap the indirect reward, if it so desires...
...your discussion of what constitutes aggression among nations [Nov. 14], you fail to distinguish between indirect aggression and revolution. Practically all revolutions have some sort of foreign support. I can hear George III screaming about a coup d'état in the American colonies where insurgents were acting as surrogates for the French...
Taking an indirect job at Mondule, who has told union groups that he supports some protectionist measures, Cranaton said he supports lowering tarriffs to improve foreign trade...
Many legal experts feel that the problem of indirect aggression is already handled adequately in the canons of international law. Among other things, they point to the 1970 U.N. resolution, whose text further states that not only armed intervention but also "all other forms of interference, or attempted threats against the personality of the State, or its political, economic and cultural elements, are in violation of international law." Sums up Derek Bowett, Whewell professor of international law at Cambridge University: "All law can do is provide basic rules, the application of which requires a good deal of judgment. No legal...