Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Drawing on such modern work as Rene Thom's mathematical catastrophe theory (to deal with discontinuous functions), as well as cybernetics and information theory, the authors almost produced a brilliant and illuminating work. Only their own assumptions held them back. It is difficult to be objective or fair when you alread "know" that our western rational consciousness is in some way "right," when you "know" that the individual is sacred and must not submit himself to anything larger, like the Godhead or transcendent oneness with the world, when you are committed to the material world of things and have consigned...
...lines won Jimmy Carter more cheers in his election campaign than his charge that the nation's tax system is a "disgrace." As President, he pledged to make the tax code "simple, fair, equitable [and] progressive" and to "substantially reduce" the burden on the taxpayer. But Carter discovered that Congress had its own idea of just what kind of tax program the nation needs...
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...neither Hiatt nor Bok is willing to initiate such a proposal, then an impartial committee should be appointed to reconcile the conflicting parties. If Hiatt's claims that his administration has been fair and straight are true, then he has nothing to fear from such a committee. Members of the senior faculty have backed the idea, and certainly, it can only help a situation which now dangerously threatens to undercut the integrity and financial base of America's oldest school of public health...
...decide this year whether the team's temporary home is a friendly or hostile rink. The Crimson's move to Walter Brown Arena means only the loss of Watson Rink, not that the icemen will be without a home advantage. It's a short trip across the river, a fair exchange for the three years of excitement Harvard hockey has given me. A year-long closing of Watson was inevitable; why not try a concerted effort to arrange bus service to games? I'll be there, and so will anyone else who really appreciates college hockey. David W. Kleeman...