Word: efforts
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...professional schools as well. He has even sought to introduce ethical considerations into the University's investment policy--following the lines laid out by John T. Simon '50, a former president of this newspaper and now professor of law at Yale, in his book The Ethical Investor. But the effort, although a noble beginning, clearly lacks direction and strength, because it is rooted in a weak sense of the purpose of ethics...
However, Bork said many people have not yet been tried. "People should be brought to trial to show that a person doesn't undertake that kind of effort (participation in war crimes) without facing consequences," she added...
...19th century English Luddites smashed machines in a doomed effort to preserve the jobs of textile workers. California Rural Legal Assistance, a federally subsidized antipoverty group, does not go quite that far. But last week it filed suit in a state court in Oakland seeking to enjoin the University of California from using state money to develop farm machines. The C.R.L.A. charges that the introduction of more modern mechanical tomato, grape and lettuce pickers will primarily benefit large growers and will cost 120,000 California farm laborers their jobs...
...work of seven nonaligned council members;* like others who listened to the debate preceding last week's vote, the seven rejected Soviet Ambassador Oleg Troyanovsky's disingenuous explanation that the invasion was "a true people's uprising" by dissident Kampucheans. It was a hypocritical effort: in earlier Security Council debates, the Soviets had been the fulsome champions of victimized Third World states. In 1974, for instance, they used their veto power to justify the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. Earlier, Moscow had led a censure of Israel for attacking Lebanon and twice vetoed motions of condemnation...
...shortcomings of the Camp David accords: I would have preferred some effort that would bring others into the peace process. We still think that it is the only way in which a true peace is likely to come about. Perhaps we should return to the Security Council or ask for a reconvening of the Geneva Conference. Certainly the situation has changed since Camp David, but from our point of view there is no progress. As for linkage [between an Egyptian-Israeli treaty and negotiations for the West Bank and Gaza], the two agreements would be too unbalanced, one with...