Word: consent
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...while Jewett would not preclude use of the information in Ad Board proceedings, he said that the Univer- sity would not normally release the information without the student's consent...
General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall last month asked all guards with knowledge of harassment or discriminatory practices in the security department to come forward and consent to interviews...
...settling the suit, Teamsters leaders agreed to a consent decree under which Frederick Lacey, the former federal judge who last week completed the Iraqgate probe, was assigned as an overseer to remove corrupt Teamsters officials and lead the way to free elections. But William McCarthy, who was president until last year, and his cronies spent $10.5 million of the union's money to litigate and obstruct the settlement at every step...
...nearly two years, while as many as half a million Somalis starved to death, the international community sought consent for famine relief from the leaders of warring clans, as though they represented their people's interests. In fact, these Mad Max characters have been conducting an experiment in anarchy. They have proved that there is an even worse fate for a nation than the most dictatorial regime imaginable, and that is the absence of any regime...
...issue of "expressed consent" is particularly important in light of the all too common situation, at Harvard as elsewhere, when a student is taken advantage of while in a drunken stupor, unable to say yes or no. That is rape, and that is what policies like this aim to prevent...