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...seems clear that campaign tactics cannot be condemned merely because they seem immoral or unethical. Little virtue will be gained by compelling the parties to be good, nor is there any reason to suppose that Congress intended the representation election as a drill in proper behavior for its own sake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bok on Labor | 3/19/1988 | See Source »

...your opinion. does not require a drill in proper behavior for its own sake, the Harvard community--students, facility, alumni and staff--most unequivocally does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bok on Labor | 3/19/1988 | See Source »

...minutes after Lappin's drill shot, Doug Murray netted SLU's second goal of the night on a deflection off a Pete McGeough shot from the point...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Saints Prey Upon Cats, 4-2 | 3/12/1988 | See Source »

Around midnight on April 28, 1944, a force of 25,000 U.S. troops was preparing to make an amphibious landing at Slapton Sands, on the southern coast of England. The operation, known as Exercise Tiger, was a practice drill for the invasion of Normandy, just five weeks away. But things went badly. The night before, a British destroyer detailed to escort the convoy collided with another ship and was anchored at port, leaving the landing craft inadequately protected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Finally, Remembrance | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...three days the scientists drilled, an inch at a time. Last Monday morning, 62 in. into the porous limestone, the carbide-tipped drill broke through. Pieter Tans, a research scientist from the University of Colorado in Boulder, filled six canisters with 159 quarts of air drawn from the chamber. He also took a sniff. Said Tans: "I did not smell history. I didn't smell anything, except maybe staleness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Probing The Chambers of Cheops | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

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