Word: caveats
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Perhaps it's American to take caveat emptor as our creed, to let the junk food we so clearly love flow freely into the marketplace--and if you can't be bothered to hunt up some vegetables or take a jog now and then, your weight problems are your own. But if that philosophy seems harsh when we're dealing with adults--not to mention blind to the enormous health-care costs that will burden the nation--it's positively heartless toward children. An Oglala Sioux on the reservation, a first-generation Hispanic American in L.A., a poor white...
...third of participants belong to the Harvard community.Although the report is mostly comprised of productive sound policy, we feel obligated to voice concern over two specific recommendations of the draft report. The first is the limit of large events to only two per day. While there is a caveat in the report that suggests relaxing the limit on specific weekends like Harvard-Yale and prefrosh weekend, we feel that flexibility should be the rule, and not the exception. Administrators validate this restriction by pointing out that few weekends have more events than would be allowed under the new restriction...
...contrast to what he considers outright government hostility to religion in Europe. He expressed this admiration to President Bush this morning. But in front of his bishops, for the first time, Benedict gave vent to an idea that he has usually presented only as a brief, if dark, caveat: that it is not enough for Americans "to count on this tradition," because its "foundations are being slowly undermined...
...willingness to try new and different methods of addressing the problem, including peer mentor programs and parent advocacy groups. HKS student Joshua Garriga added that providing decent jobs, encouraging integrity in children, and focusing on education would help close the gap. But HBS professor David A. Thomas offered a caveat to students who may become discouraged after trying to recruit people to help alleviate the discrepancy. “Don’t try and convert those who are not ready to take action,” Thomas said. “Often times we waste our energy trying...
...Dean Smith have to add such a humiliating and terrible caveat? Dean Hammonds, after all, is a respected scholar within both her departments and was well-regarded in her previous administrative position...