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While a few percentage points in test accuracy entail the prospect of tens of thousands of false positive results and falsely labelled individuals, screening suffers from another kind of subjectivity. It is politically easiest to propose or implement screening of groups that are already defined and over which the government or an employer already has direct power--as in, for instance, the AIDS testing of ROTC cadets, the drug testing of federal employees or the testing of the employees of an estimated one quarter of the nation's largest private firms. There is no medical reason for such choices...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: A New Kind of Power | 10/7/1986 | See Source »

Eliot House officials refused to specify what Leonard Bernstein '39's visit will entail. "That is not something we wish to be publicized," said an Eliot official who refused to give her name...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: From Ma at Leverett to TV at Lowell, Houses Host Guests to Celebrate 350th | 10/3/1986 | See Source »

...University, following its Great Frugal Tradition, no doubt is worried that it cannot afford to install copy card readers. But this time, poverty is a poor excuse. Prices are doubling, and the extra revenue that this will bring should easily make up for the expense which copy cards entail...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | 9/24/1986 | See Source »

...accomplishments in four years at the Undergraduate Council, he may forever be identified with the 90 pages of by-laws he unloaded on a shocked council at the end of his freshman year. (One provision stated, "The term 'shall,' with respect to persons shall entail a duty to perform...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: The Life of Brian | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

...amendments also deleted language assuring Harvard that the city would not seek to include University property in a historical district. Harvard opposes such a classification because it could entail tight restrictions on its freedom to make changes...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: City Council Passes Zoning Ordinance | 6/4/1986 | See Source »

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