Word: indirectly
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...issue at hand: whether to raise local property taxes or cut Weston's $7 million school budget by $400,000 for the 1981-82 school year. With indirect federal subsidies suddenly imperiled, the town cannot decide whether to spend less in the future or tax itself more. "We must face economic realities," intones Budget Basher John Lupton, a silver-haired onetime advertising executive remotely related to Puritan Spoilsport Cotton Mather. But Lupton is having trouble convincing his neighbors that his newly formed antiwaste group, COST (Coalition Opposing Soaring Taxes) is not antieducation...
...want to make our point through rallies and demonstrations and debates rather than by withholding money. Such tight-fistedness would hurt primarily current and future students, who depend on alumni largess to subsidize the cost of a Harvard education. Refusing to contribute is just single-issue politics in an indirect and probably ineffective from...
...vote, the high court ruled that Indiana's action violated the First Amendment's guarantee of religious freedom. Forcing a worker to forgo a government benefit when he has acted on his religious principles is unconstitutionally "coercive," wrote Chief Justice Warren Burger. "While the compulsion may be indirect, the infringement upon free exercise is nonetheless substantial." The precedent cited by the majority was a 1963 case that upheld a Seventh-day Adventist's right to unemployment benefits after she left a job that began requiring work on Saturday, her Sabbath...
Since one of Thomas' co-workers was a Jehovah's Witness who stayed on the job, reasoning that tank making was too indirect a form of taking up arms to be immoral, the court could have concluded that Thomas took advantage of the situation. Instead, the Justices defended Thomas' broad view. "In this sensitive area," wrote Burger, "it is not within the judicial function and judicial competence to inquire whether the petitioner or his fellow worker more correctly perceived the commands of their common faith...
...military equipment, especially sophisticated communications gear and helicopters. The U.S. justifies the dispatch of instructors as necessary to help the Salvadorans make good use of the new equipment. Finally, Administration officials concede, the advisers comprise a "highly visible" sign of the Reagan Administration's determination to fight Communist "indirect armed aggression...