Word: indirectness
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Administration supply-siders and monetarists are particularly incensed at Stockman's efforts to push through a package of indirect taxes on such items as tobacco, alcohol and gasoline. Lawrence Kudlow, the chief economist at OMB, has given such tax increases the woolly euphemism of "revenue enhancers." Supply-siders say that increasing taxes would repeat the mistake made in 1979 by Britain's Margaret Thatcher, when she tried to reduce a revenue shortfall brought on by sharp income tax cuts by raising the value-added taxes on consumer goods. Many economists now believe that the Thatcher taxes seriously aggravated...
...REAL VALUE of the book lies in its explanation of the indirect benefits of conservation. Mankind could lose valuable but as yet unknown drugs from plants, the esthetic beauty of the gnarled Bristle Cone Pines and the majestic blue whales, and the companionship of our pets. Crass, short-term harvesting of whales to make a profit or use of DDT to save time, or polluting to cut costs--all these deprive us of natural novelties which once gone can never be creat#d again...
...outdone, the rest of the Harvard offense came up with some fireworks of its own at 27:38 when Aryault tallied on a diving header off the foot of Peter Sergienko, who came up from his sweeper position to take an indirect kick...
...Lions converted two free kicks in the opening 15 minutes of the match. Ivy Rookie of the Year Steve Sirtes pushed an indirect kick just outside the Harvard penalty box to a charging Kazkek Tambi, who hit the back of the net at 7:36. Goalkeeper Ben Erulkar got a hand on Tambi's shot, but the ball trickled into the goal...
...effectiveness." Right-wing columnists feel much freer in muting their enthusiasm for the President. In the territory where Rowland Evans and Robert Novak roam-and where seldom is heard a discouraging word about Senator Jesse Helms and other rightists-the atmosphere is humid with intrigues, heavy-breathing innuendoes and indirect quotes ("Important conservative Republicans in Congress, while keeping mum publicly, grumble privately that the President has lost control of his own Administration to moderate forces"). Reagan momentarily retrieved himself to Evans-Novak at Ottawa by proving "rigidly ideological as no other American President has been." Criticism might be preferable...