Word: conducters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...curious that polls show Americans heartily approve of the job Clinton is doing as President despite his conduct behind closed doors. But the American public is sending a message: As long as we make a lot of money, the character of the people leading us to the Valley of Plenty doesn't matter. JEREMIAH R. COLE Highland Heights...
...important work to do here at Harvard. We need to work with our administration to create and implement the best code we can as part of what has become a national movement capturing the attention of the federal government. Last semester, we built public support for a code of Conduct and raised awareness about sweatshop abuses. In April, we held a rally in the Yard at which two workers from the Dominican Republic who worked in a sweatshop there to make university-logo hats for Harvard and other schools spoke about their experience. We will continue our public activities...
...student speaker on each panel made forceful arguments about the need for strong standards in codes of conduct for student involvement in these codes. They stressed the importance of including full public disclosure and a living wage in university codes of conduct...
Several panelists supported these student principles, such as Dr. Robert Kohan, a professor of political science from Duke, who echoed the need for some form of public disclosure so that workers or human-rights groups at a particular factory could pull the code of conduct fire-alarm and alert universities to code violation. Koehane also pointed out that the quick consensus called for by some administrators should not be used an excuse for a weak code...
...living language in the Harvard Code, something that has not been done at other schools. We hope that our administrators got a great deal out of the conference too and took note both of the importance of public disclosure and of the fact that many seemingly difficult Code of Conduct standards have been accepted even by manufacturers. We believe that we will be able to work together to do what is right and to use the power of the Harvard name, in cooperation with other universities to protect the rights of those who make our clothes...