Word: circumventions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These actions were prompted by an understandable fear of serious interference in scientific research. However, Lear pinpoints a contradiction in many scientists' stand against regulation: these same scientists stand to profit considerably from their research through shares in corporations they set up to market their research. More fundamentally, scientists used...
Last week the British government released a 500-page investigative report that seemed to confirm the worst suspicions. Not only has Rhodesia received a steady supply of petroleum products since its secession, but for at least eleven years British subsidiary companies were among the chief suppliers. Worse, Her Majesty's...
Led by Mendell, the gang last December broke into a vacant building near a police station in a seedy section of Chicago's Near North Side. With acetylene torches, they burned their way into a jewelry store next door, used an electronic device to circumvent a burglar alarm and stole...
Still another difficulty involves the wording with which both sides pledge that they will not try to circumvent the terms of the accord. Although such a vow may seem superfluous, the Soviets could try to interpret it in a manner that would impede the transfer of weapon technology by the...
Vorster need not be too worried about he U.N.'s mandatory arms embargo. Eventually, the embargo could hurt South Africa by depriving it of sophisticated new weaponry and technology. But as of today, South Africa's 41,000-man army is one of the best trained and best equipped on...