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The Obama-era National Labor Relations Board’s joint-employer rule put parent companies on the hook for labor violations of their franchisees if they exercised “indirect control” over the employment conditions of their workers.

In the meantime, measuring what is inside the plumes and how much material they carry gives scientists a powerful indirect way to study the subsurface environment.

However, that deal was then blocked by the U.K. government amid concerns about the prospect of indirect foreign government involvement in a British publication.

However, researchers caution that it is still unclear whether the lower death rate seen in this study reflects a direct anti-cancer action or an indirect result of improved overall metabolic health.

You could short the stocks of home building companies—Pulte Homes, say, or Toll Brothers—but that was expensive, indirect, and dangerous.