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Indirect

Indirect quotations do not guarantee exact wording, but they still command the authority quoted. Such constructions as says that, without quotation marks, indicate the looseness of a quotation.

Irving Clayton, a Canadian poet, observed that his countrymen are right to consider America hell; but only because Canada itself is limbo.

James Harbour, an American productivity expert, argues that by finding ways of stripping out costs without affecting quality or reliability, the Japanese could reduce costs by 40-50%.

The first shot was lobbed back in 1989, when Rushdie, four months into his Ayatollah-decreed death sentence, wrote an eviscerating review of le Carré's thriller "The Russia House"; le Carré responded by declaring that Rushdie had brought the "fatwa" upon himself and criticized him for going ahead with the paperback edition of "The Satanic Verses," suggesting that Rushdie put a higher value on cash than on the lives of his publisher's employees.

She once told an interviewer that her Olive Oyl voice was an attempt to imitate the actress ZaSu Pitts.

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