Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confused but climactic phase of SALT II, from the beginning of the Carter presidency until last week's announcement. Believing that one way to grasp SALT is to understand its evolution, TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott has spent much of the past year reconstructing the Administration's conduct of SALT, based on exclusive interviews with key officials. His report...
...generosity" of Harvard's backers is well-returned. The University's faculty and graduate students do critical research for a variety of government and corporate interests, often on the basis of specific grants. Professional programs such as the KSG conduct advanced technical training for the future leaders of politics and finance. Harvard educates and socializes its undergraduates to take their place in the ruling class, inculcating them with establishment values and laying out a life-long program of privilege, powet and skills, if only they are willing to take that place...
...Price Anderson Act undermines the safeguards that a regime of full liability is intended to create. The prospect of liability builds into our conduct a salutary vigilance and solicitousness roughly commensurate to the perceived costs of a lack of vigilance. Under the influence of exaggerated claims of nuclear safety we dismantled the system of liability in precisely that technological sector where the utmost vigilance is needed...
...network executives changed their minds a month later after a nine-year-old girl was raped with a beer bottle on a San Francisco beach and her parents filed suit against the company for inciting the crime. Cowan's explanation of "the apparent nexus between television and antisocial conduct" is too shallow-- he doesn't bother to talk about the psychological (and more interesting) aspects, choosing instead to get lost in the legalese of Congressional reports. Later, he quotes a writer who wanted to pen the teleplay for an episode of The FBI about the 1965 bombing of a black...
...Jean that her husband had "sold" her to them, and another began to paw her. She broke loose and managed to get Robin back to their hotel, where police threatened to arrest him and tried to get Jean to sign a statement accusing her husband of drunken and disorderly conduct. She refused, and the couple eventually were allowed to return to their room. Robin was unconscious for much of the night, trembling violently and vomiting. The next day he was well enough to travel, and the couple returned to Moscow...