Word: indirectly
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...alone can produce the necessary savings. And even efficiency is not a free lunch. The fat in the current health-care financing system, both public and private, helps to support teaching hospitals, medical research and health care for people without insurance. Squeezing out the fat means squeezing out these indirect subsidies. It also will involve disconcerting changes for Medicare beneficiaries...
Which, perhaps, is a polite way of saying USA Gymnastics wants to avoid a repetition of the '92 Games, when spectators, sports columnists and even some coaches were appalled by the joyless intensity that pervaded the competition. It is also an indirect response to a book by San Francisco journalist Joan Ryan, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes, that dwells on the least savory aspects of elite gymnastics. Ryan decries the sport's preference in recent years forprepubescent bodies and the subsequent eating disorders among many world-class gymnasts. She describes ruthless coaches who virtually starve their charges, athletes...
Milosevic: Well, I'll tell you, I had some direct and some indirect contacts with Tudjman up to the first of May, when [fighting started in] western Slavonia. We are not [in contact...
...phone number on a package -- that would provide the identity and whereabouts of the elusive killer. Nothing so far, though, has changed their profile of Unabomber as a single white male, probably in his early 40s, with at least a high school education and some experience, even if indirect, with higher learning. Although Unabomber claims to belong to an anarchist group called F.C., he appears to be a loner and a neat freak, whose deadly packages are constructed with care, even though some elements are homemade...
...indirect attack on the sciences is exemplified by our very own Professor of English and Comparative Literature, James Engell '73, who was quoted in last week's Crimson as being concerned with the amount of resources the United States already invests in science. But scientific research constitutes the seeds which will determine the future of this country. And if money is taken away from scientific projects, the U.S. will reap what it sows...