Word: coercion
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...backing HUCTW. While the University may have kept these actions within the letter of the law, they certainly have not followed the spirit. This time, the union has urged Harvard to remain neutral during the election. The union argues that any, and all, administration input is a form of coercion, since employees may feel pressured to heed their boss's word and not endanger their...
...impaneled last May after the Supreme Court freed a Muslim army officer who had been imprisoned for seven years on the basis of perjured testimony by Shin Bet agents. The three-man panel condemned Shin Bet's habit of lying in court but agreed that "moderate" physical and psychological coercion is necessary to extract information. "The view prevails that there is an unavoidable need to use physical pressure in interrogations," the commission concluded...
While no such drastic action is contemplated byHarvard, administration officals, such as Dean ofFreshman Henry C. Moses, say they will actstrenuously to protect individual students' rightto be free from coercion...
...agreement were settled, the United States' only option for shielding the continent from Soviet coercion would be a rapid buildup in conventional forces. However ideal, this option would be impractical considering the country's already strained fiscal resources. Nuclear weapons just happen to be cheap, and increasing our expensive conventional armies would wreak havoc on the budget deficit...
...decade ago. If ever one building in an architect's career made amends for another, it is this. Imagine something akin to the Frick Museum, but with fewer masterpieces and devoted to the juncture between modernism and the archaic, a place where disinterested aesthetic experience can be enjoyed without coercion or surfeit. One would then have the Menil...