Word: indirectness
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...opened the case for the defense, teasing the court with the possibility that Libby and even Vice President Dick Cheney would testify. Wells first trotted out six prominent reporters to say they had never discussed Plame with Libby during the summer of 2003. It was an odd start, an indirect approach, implying that if Libby hadn't talked about the CIA operative with luminaries like The Washington Post's Bob Woodward, he probably hadn't mentioned her to any reporter...
...Republicans blocked debate on the non-binding resolution, and Democrats overplayed their hand in the House, meanwhile, when Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania threatened to withhold funds for any combat unit destined for Iraq which was undermanned or under-equipped in some way - an indirect Iraq no confidence vote. Republicans seized on this too-clever-by-half gambit, charging the majority with bleeding the troops and shrewdly challenging Democrats to simply cut off all funds if they didn't like the war. That worked. Murtha hasn't been heard from since, though his aides say he may say something...
...subcommittee of Harvard’s Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility—composed of faculty, students, and alumni—attempts to evaluate the school’s policy on indirect investments, it will weigh many of the same arguments that ultimately left Princeton and Chicago on divergent paths...
Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer, after receiving queries from Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND), said last year that his school had only indirect holdings in Sudan-linked companies, though he has declined to say which companies the university had shares in and through which financial instruments it owned the shares...
Princeton, on the other hand, decided to divest from both types of holdings. The school announced last June—well before divestment campaigns were focused on indirect holdings—that it would no longer invest “directly or indirectly [in companies] sponsoring, committing or allowing genocide” in Darfur...