Word: indirectness
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Chirac and his advisers worked through the night and all day Wednesday before settling on a new Cabinet acceptable to Mitterrand. Much of the communication with the Elysee was indirect. A favored channel: regular phone calls between top aides. Mitterrand used the process to reject several Chirac choices. Among them was U.D.F. Leader Jean Lecanuet, 66, whom Mitterrand vetoed as Foreign Minister because of his recent criticism of the President and his past enthusiasm for military ties to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The key appointments...
South Africa is not some extension of Appalachia where American youth can do social work. It is a country where the schoolchildren and teachers in Black schools are on strike, and where education is under direct and indirect state control. It is a situation in which you have to take sides. Let us hope that Dan Steiner and Alan Heimert when they go to South Africa later on this month do not lose Harvard or themselves in the crossfire...
...long as the terms and conditions associated with the funds conform with institutional research policies and the existence of the agreement is made public. With regard to personal contracts between individual faculty and intelligence agencies, the guidelines state: "Individual members of the Harvard community may enter into direct or indirect consulting arrangements for the CIA to provide research or analytical services. The individual should report in writing the existence of such an arrangement to the Dean of his or her Faculty, who should then inform the President of the University." One reason for this rule is stated in the preamble...
...which the conference would make use of Harvard's name and facilities. Based on these assurances and conclusions, I permitted the conference to take place provided the source of funding was disclosed to all participants before the conference began and with the understanding that an appropriate charge for indirect cost recovery would be made...
...second bill establishes an indirect federal backup to the ailing Farm Credit System, the privately owned cooperative that holds about one-third of the nation's $213 billion farm debt. The measure seeks to redistribute the system's assets by requiring prosperous banks to help financially pressed institutions. It also offers the prospect of assistance in the event of a credit collapse, but only if specifically approved by Congress. The bill was rushed to passage to reassure the Wall Street bond market, which each year buys some $100 billion of the system's paper...