Word: feare
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...observations may be made with reference to this last reason. One may question whether appealing to "rule and precedent" is on any count the best way of handling problems, especially in a period of rapid and unforeseen change such as our own. One may question the validity of the fear that the consequence of joining in a national effort to end the war in Vietnam will be to drown the Faculty in "continued and inevitably impassioned political debate." It is a great bother, and it takes a great deal of time, to engage in such debate. Most of those...
Though the substance of the resolutions will not satisfy all members of the Faculty, the motions should be acceptable to the great majority. Some Faculty members fear that a vote supporting the Moratorium would trespass on the right of students who want to attend classes. But the resolution now before the Faculty would do no such thing. No Faculty member would be committed by his vote to cancelling his class. On the other hand, the Faculty would have given its support to a peaceful demonstration of disgust at current government policies on the war. Whether or not the resolution passes...
Pusey said that although almost all the Faculty were in favor of the merger up to the summer, some members are now opposed because they fear pressure for an increased enrollment...
...Indeed, insofar as some crities fear 'militaristic' influence in the national defense system, opposition to ROTC issingularly inappropriate-its abolition would decrease civilian influence...
...always been exempt from federal income tax, but the reform bill that the House passed in August would make such interest partially taxable for many individual investors. Banks, which normally buy 70% to 80% of all municipal bonds, would continue to collect tax-free interest, but their officers fear that if the bill is finally enacted it will be only a matter of time before that exemption is limited, too. The slowdown in municipal-bond sales has produced something close to a revolt among governors, mayors and county officials. Several of them appeared before the Senate Finance Committee last week...