Word: indirectness
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...carefully taught to be suspicious of the other, yet there is an unspoken affinity between the two sides as well, an affinity that does not exist between the Protestant Northern Irish and the English, or even between the Catholics in the north and south. The connections show up in indirect ways. Teen-age girls in Belfast adore the romantic novels of Joan Lingard, especially Across the Barricades ("when Catholic Kevin and Protestant Sadie are old enough for their hitherto un acknowledged attraction to flower into love"). It is not wishful thinking, exactly; Bernadette admits she would never date a Prod...
...Endowment income $ 42.3 $ 57.0 $ 76.6 $82.1 7.2% 6.9% Current gifts 33.3 38.1 62.7 72.6 15.8% 8.1% Student income: Tuition and fees 38.3 59.8 91.1 104.6 14.8% 10.6% Student income: Board and lodging 9.1 16.2 23.5 27.6 17.4% 11.7% Federal research-direct 49.3 52.5 73.1 76.9 5.2% 4.5% Federal research-indirect 8.6 15.0 25.0 29.1 16.4% 13.0% Other 13.1 31.1 44.9 53.7 19.6% 15.2% Total...
...Three or four barter networks using direct trade have tried to get started in Boston before, but a lot of people had bad experiences with them because of the direct barter system, and they failed. That's why we're eager to try out the idea of indirect barter," he added...
...important thing to remember about The Barterbank is that it uses a system of indirect barter," Donald J. Magder, co-founder and co-director of the bank, which is presently used by about 60 people, said...
Erickson was unavailable for comment; sources say, however, that he wrote an indirect apology to the state board of bar overseers about the incident. The board apparently also scolded the tenants union for publicizing the case in local newspapers...