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Before the meeting, Dunlevy said, "I had been around they were the absolute minimum criteria as far as moral and ethical" guidelines for company operations...
...legend and fact. Where Tuchman once wrote that "insistence on purpose turns the historian into a prophet" her new book is defined by purpose, its conclusions implicitly prophetic. And the 12 case studies, Tuchman uses to explore her question were explicitly chosen because of their conformance to strict criteria. Stated or not, Folly and Government employs a "large organizing idea" to transform at least one small branch of history into a system...
Professor Peter Booysen, acting principal of the University of Natal, one of the four involved, has told The New York Times that "we are totally opposed to any form of admission policy based on criteria other than academic criteria." His colleges have denounced almost unanimously the proposed quota system as an affront to the principles of university autonomy and racial equity in higher education. Furthermore, the senate of the largest institution involved, the University of the Witwatersrand, issued a pointed statement last month, nothing that the University's leaders condemned any attempt to "compel the university to become an instrument...
...sentiment is understandable, but in the view of many nuclear experts, the proposed solution is impractical and unwise. While most freeze resolutions call for measures that are "mutual and verifiable," a comprehensive freeze, almost by definition, would meet neither of those criteria. If the U.S. agreed to suspend all production of new nuclear weapons, then congressional watchdogs, Pentagon whistle blowers and investigative reporters would make sure that the ban was observed. There would be no similar self-policing in the secrecy-shrouded, security-obsessed U.S.S.R. Also, it would be extremely difficult for American intelligence agencies to monitor Soviet compliance with...
Applicants, who need not be able to speak Russian, must submit a statement by May 1 describing how they would use the grant money. Goldman said that originality and feasibility will be the strongest criteria in selecting the winning proposals...