Word: conflict
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...that the British and French forces are under independent national commands. In the event of a military showdown in Europe, these two nations might act in concert with Washington. But they could also rule out the use of nuclear force, in the hope of staying out of any conflict...
These cases involve a conflict between two important democratic values: religious liberty and the state's obligation to ensure that children have access to a free, adequate education. All 50 states have compulsory attendance laws, and ten of them require their private schools to use state-certified teachers. Catholic, Lutheran and Jewish schools for years have accommodated state requirements. But the Protestant fundamentalists who run the new Christian schools interpret both the Bible and their mission more rigidly. The Rev. Gerald Somero, 42, minister of the Sheridan Road Baptist Church, believes that by complying with licensing requirements...
...Since each student who leaves a Michigan public school to attend a Christian academy deprives the local school district of about $2,000 in state aid, the judge also observed that state officials were hardly disinterested guardians of education. He called state regulation of private schools "an incredible conflict of interest...
According to a mid-December draft the most recent of several that have emerged since last spring the rules spell out proposed policy in four major areas conduct of research, discussing criteria for accepting grants motivation for research, including conflict of interest rules for Faculty members, quality of research covering the review and evaluation of projects and the commercial applications of research defining the touchy issues involved with patenting and licensing "any invention deriving from university-based research...
...ordinarily devote the time and energy the university requires and also pursue a substantial involvement in any such outside company. Such involvement necessarily demands great concentration and commitment, particularly at the outset or if business goes badly. When a faculty member becomes substantially involved in a company, the conflict in norms governing the dissemination of knowledge becomes very difficult to reconcile. The burden of maintaining a teaching program and two separate research programs, where the results of one research program are to be widely disseminated and the results of the other may be required to be kept secret...