Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought that previous U.S. Supreme Court decisions meant that "private consensual sex acts between adults are matters, absent evidence that they are harmful, in which the state has no legitimate interest." But Judges Albert V. Bryan, 76, and Oren R. Lewis, 73, held that the state could ban such conduct because it "is likely to end in a contribution to moral delinquency." It was their ruling, though not necessarily their reasoning, that was upheld by the high court last week. The three dissenters would have heard full arguments before handing down a decision that now stands as a national precedent...
Sacks said the investigator will be a "detached person" who will be allowed to personally determine how to conduct the investigation...
Preparations to implement the policy include retraining officers in rules of conduct during an arrest in addition to defining which trespassers "constitute a threat to the life and property of the Harvard community," Kahn said...
...CONDUCT OF LIFE" shelf is where the Library of Congress is putting this book, right there next to Aristotle and Emerson, and at first this seems to be somebody's ghastly, naive mistake. L. Rust Hills is a writer of witty essays in Playboy and Esquire magazines on the foibles and disorders of modern life. His publishers try to give the impression on the dust jacket that Hills is having a bit of a joke here with his talk of "Moral Virtue," the kind of joke you tell with plenty of broad winks and an occasional leer. It's just...
...Virtue is what Hills is pushing, seriously, and the librarian who classified How to Be Good under Conduct of Life was only half wrong. The plentiful winks and leers are only the sugar coating that makes his morality palatable. At least, that's how Hills looks at it. He wants you to have scruples, but he suspects you're going to need to be persuaded and he sympathizes with your reluctance to get bogged down with them, boring and unprofitable as they are. "If you are scrupulous today," he writes, "people don't think of you as a hero...