Word: indirection
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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There is no joy in the gym. It looks more beguiling and comfortable than your living room-indirect lighting, wall-to-wall carpeting, floor-length mirrors-but right away you begin to hurt. "Hear that grinding noise?" says your chesty instructor, as he leads you through some neck rotations. "You're breaking down calcium deposits." During the pelvic lift, he explains: "This is good . . . one and two and lift . . . for hypo-kinetic tension . . . and two and hyperventilate. Bet you can't kick your butt," he says, kicking his butt. He is right...
NEVERTHELESS, tenants have succeeded in extracting some concessions from the University. From time to time, maintenance improvement has been initiated. Harvard arranged for payment of their urban consultant. And, last October, after a tenant boycott of the housing subcommittee. University officials signed an agreement which gave the tenants an indirect veto over all relocation housing plans...
...Banner is certainly the most effective news medium operating in the black community, but as Miller readily admits, whatever influence it exerts is almost impossible to measure. "I would say that whatever influence we do have is indirect. We inspire people to act or take a certain stance on a certain issue." Miller says...
...fact, Wall Street is no longer a club for the self-satisfied rich. An estimated 26 million Americans own stock directly, and 75 million more have an indirect stake through mutual funds and profit-sharing and pension plans. In the Cabinet Committee on Economics, the stock market is occasionally a topic for jokes-and some nervous laughter. To one out of two Americans, the subject right now is not very funny...
...left 25 cabinets filled with personal memorabilia. These documents, Holton writes in the American Journal of Physics, include a number of letters in which Einstein speaks of the influence of the experiment on the formulation of his theory: this influence is always described in such words as "negligible," "rather indirect" or "not decisive." Furthermore, toward the end of his life, Einstein appears to have become increasingly determined to demolish the myth. In an unpublished letter written only a year before his death, Einstein said: "I even do not remember if I knew of [the experiment] at all when I wrote...