Word: consent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a plain-paper copier of its own, touching off a still unsettled suit by Xerox that charges 22 infringements of its patents. Last year Xerox assured itself of still more trouble by deciding not to fight a longstanding Government antitrust suit and instead signing a Federal Trade Commission consent decree, under which it agreed to share technology with competitors...
...National Institutes of Health responded with rules establishing research review committees at all institutions receiving NIH money. The committees were to include community representatives and members of non-medical professions. NIH also set up standards of "informed consent," specifying the kinds of information researchers had to provide their subjects before experimenting on them...
Where the public's interest lies in this dispute between Government and press was put best by Alexander Bickel, a Yale law professor. In his posthumous book The Morality of Consent, he answered: "It is the contest that serves the interest of society as a whole, which is identified neither with the interest of the Government alone nor of the press." Bickel expected each side to pursue its interest with zeal, but "the weight of the First Amendment is on the reporter's side, because the assumption . . . is that secrecy and the control of news...
...acceding to the tenants' wishes, the University lived up to its 50-year-old obligation to provide inexpensive housing for married students. At the same time, by agreeing to proceed with repairs only with the consent of the tenants, Harvard justly recognized the rights of tenants to help determine housing policy...
...must consent to a dreadful and irreparable pillage of his deepest self. Something dies in him. Some part of humanness will wither from such close contact with the opposite of humanness--the essence of evilness; and it is rarely, if ever, revitalized...