Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...already purchased land, found the other inhabitants pleasing, and complained only of, "a little flye caled a misketo that...bites like a midge," but even those could be kept out of the house with smoke pots, he guaranteed. Ending his plea with, "May ye Lord bles you, and conduct you safe hither," his story becomes just one of Bailyn's many revealing glimpses into...
UNETHICAL CONDUCT AMONG politicians--even those in high executive office--or Wall Street traders may call for an investigation. And the procedures are fairly well-defined, because wheeling and dealing is all part of the game. But disclosure of fraud in science is another story. The recent retraction of "incorrect" research by scientists in the laboratory of Ellis L. Reinherz at Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has made it clear that the procedures for coming to grips with such fraud need to be better defined...
...widely held view that its members were often more interested in promoting their own policy preferences than in coordinating those of others. Now, however, this concern has been replaced by a new one: that the NSC staff has carved out a new and fundamentally different role for itself--the conduct of covert operations--and that it has done so in a way that exempts it from not only congressional oversight but that of the State Department, the Pentagon...
This makes Regan a lightning rod for criticism of the Administration when problems erupt. Resting his case on Iran, the Daniloff deal and Reagan's murky conduct at the Iceland summit, conservative Columnist George Will wrote last week: "The aides in close contact with President Reagan today are the least distinguished such group to serve any President in the postwar period." Regan dismisses such sweeping criticisms. But he does bristle at unfavorable comparisons between his White House (and he often sounds as if he believes it is "his" White House) and that managed by his predecessor, James Baker. Regan firmly...
...investment policies. Just last week President Bok and the corporation refused the requests of the Undergraduate Council, over two dozen other student groups and over 1100 students to hold an open meeting to discuss divestment. In this atmosphere members of the Harvard community who objected to the University's conduct on strong moral grounds felt compelled to undertake civil disobedience in response to the indifference of a closed bureaucracy...