Word: flows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour without notes, and he had us in the hollow of his hand. One of his themes was the potential goodness of individual man, and the potential wickedness of collective man. An individual man could become a saint, but collective man was a tough proposition. He broke the flow of his talk only once, and that was to say to the chairman, "Must I go on speaking under these terrible lights?" Whereupon they were...
...most problematic section called for a ban on "encouraging or supporting rebellious activities" -- wording that was clearly aimed at stopping the flow of U.S. weaponry through Pakistan to the mujahedin, the Afghan resistance forces. That provision has been a source of contention between the superpowers for many weeks. The Soviets refused to cut off their arms supplies to President Najibullah, the leader Moscow installed in Kabul in 1986. Washington insisted on "symmetry," the right to arm the mujahedin as long as Moscow helped Kabul, and two weeks ago Moscow grudgingly agreed...
...patent does absolutely nothing to further research," Weissman says. "All that this can do is to decrease the flow of research communication between labs...
Robert Weissman '88-89, director of Harvard Watch, founded last year under the auspices of Ralph Nader to critique University policy in a variety of areas, says Harvard's decision to give marketing rights to DuPont Chemicals is in opposition to its stated policies in favor of the free flow of scientific information. DuPont provided the bulk of the funding for the Med School's mouse project...
...free flow of information and ideas is vital to the fabric of our national life," the Shattuck report concludes. "Government policy aimed at broadly controlling the communication of information and ideas is ultimately self-defeating and may soon become irreparably damaging unless it is substantially revised by the next President...