Word: discussing
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...television and on college campuses across the nation, liberal sexual mores typified by casual, non-committal and ephemeral relationships, have had the effect of diminishing the sanctity of sex. The 20-something actors on prime time television sitcoms now unabashedly discuss their sexual relationships before their young audiences in the way that the children on "The Cosby Show" once took pleasure in speaking of simpler, more innocent relationships. Along with so much else that has fallen prey to "progressivism," there are indications that chastity, not unlike its cousin chivalry, is passe...
Changes in our sexual mores have not all been for the worse. The fact that we are more able to discuss sexually transmitted diseases and other aspects of human sexuality openly, for example, is beneficial even if the new spirit of openness is the result of some regrettable changes in sexual practices. In the good old days, we may have spoken more eliptically about the birds and the bees, but children were experimenting with sex less than they are now and divorce and teen-age pregnancy rates were similarly lower...
Tadjedin and Moynahan said that they plan to have sessions to discuss the results of the survey in the spring, but that they want the IOP to be identified as a facilitator, not a leader, of the discussion on race...
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 declined to comment on the incident, in accordance with the administration policy's not to discuss individual disciplinary cases...
...blow, Jackson turned down the Justice Department's request that Microsoft be fined $1 million a day for the duration ? but that's nothing compared to the millions Microsoft could lose in the absence of the Explorer browser's competitive edge. A reticent Gates, currently in China, refused to discuss the case ? but insisted the browser wars "will continue ... it's a healthy competition," he said...