Word: breach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author of an article that Dr. Shervert H. Frazier admitted to quoting without proper attribution said yesterday that breach was not serious, but he said the eminent Harvard psychiatrist's other acts of plagiarism did warrant his resignation...
...widely considered a breach of democratic etiquette to question the collective wisdom of the electorate. To suggest that the voters are wrong, let alone to characterize their error in more melodramatic terms, opens you up to charges of elitism. The contention that people have been misled or manipulated, wrote one smug supporter of the probable winner shortly before the election, "reveals an extraordinary contempt for the political intelligence of the public...
...taken this second apartment as a quiet place to write a book), she is married to a prosperous surgeon who makes no unreasonable demands on her time or emotions. Why then is she drawn to a particular voice from the next room? Probably because change has opened a breach in her defenses, and she recognizes in the speaker a voice she long ago stilled in herself. Actually it belongs to a woman called Hope (Mia Farrow), great with child, great with inchoate dreams and feelings too. Curiosity leads to obsession; soon Marion is following Hope in the streets, even making...
Given these facts, the professor had every right to release the names of the students who received first year honors. He did not breach any officially sanctioned policy of the Harvard Business School, and he did not violate the student resolution. He simply read the names of honor recipients in his own class to his own students, not recruiters or reporters. Quite appropriately, he sought to recognize, in a personal way, the outstanding achievement of his students. Such personal attention and caring in student/faculty relationships is strongly encouraged at the Business School...
...over to a certified dirty trickster. In truth, Sasso's misdeeds were exaggerated by the Goody Two Shoes moralism of the early Democratic contests. The Biden videotape merely coupled the Senator's public words with those of his rhetorical twin, British Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock. A more serious breach was Sasso's ill-advised effort to keep the truth about his role from Dukakis. But there is a long political tradition of forgiving transgressions -- especially when the candidate doing the forgiving suddenly finds himself lagging in the polls...