Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response to charges that Safran's dealings with the CIA violated basic principles of academic freedom, President Bok authored an open letter on secrecy in research, which was interpreted as a critique of the University's current rules about sponsored research...
President Bok and educators throughout the country have also taken up the issue and are striving to define what role the University should play in the teaching of ethics. But the ethical education debate underscores a problem facing the entire country--a conflict over basic values and changing norms which transcends individual fields...
This emphasis on transmitting values is a recurrent theme in the debates about ethics--in education, in foreign policy. "The problem is developing a foreign policy which reflects basic American values, and that is something we do not have right now," says Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, one of the Democratic candidates for president...
...These have been some tough years for us," Shattuck says about the Reagan years, which have not seen any increase in scientific funding. Indeed, money distributed by the National Science Foundation, the federal agency responsible for sponsoring basic scientific research, has not increased for the last 15 years...
...publishing a "green paper" that asks the colony's 5.5 million people to choose among some 30 electoral options. The findings of the survey will be submitted to Governor David Wilson in October. China has already made it clear that whatever Britain does must be compatible with the "basic law" now being drafted for the territory. Most observers guess that even if Hong Kong citizens choose direct elections, the British will probably defer to Peking and permit only a limited form of democracy...