Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White. He was not mollified by the stipulation that the paintings would return to Boston once every five years for the next 50 years. To try to stop or at least stall the sale, White asked the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court last week for a temporary restraining order. His argument: that $800 of the Stuarts' original purchase price of $1,500 in 1831 had come from a public subscription. Hence there was a "public trust" that forbade the sale of the portraits outside Boston...
...boycott. His error is not just factual but runs to the heart of the corporate responsibility issue. Mr. Lazarus, Prof. Milton Brown (Allied Stores) and other retailers erect the same false shield ofhneutrality whenever pressed on the boycott "We're just pawns in the hands of consumers," the argument runs...
Anyone with the least understanding of the retail sector knows what a sham this argument is. The Federated chain (Lazarus) and Allied Stores (Brown) both sell millions of dollars of Stevens products yearly with the help of millions of advertising dollars. Since so much of linen sales is done by mail, the relationship of advertising to Stevens products is clear: do not just passively reflect consumer preferences, they actively try to shape them...
...academic integrity and freedom have little to do with such recruitment. Many who use this argument do so rather because they believe the CIA is a dishonorable organization and conclude that therefore academics should have no links with it whatsoever...
...passing-on of the student's name without his permission to the CIA is a different matter because the student becomes automatically subject to an unsolicited security check--a far more serious threat to his rights. That such checks occur independently of covert recruitment is of course no argument to challenge controls over them when they are connected...