Word: frameworks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...virtue to this, of course. The purpose of ethics is to apply moral concepts to life, but that is often a tricky business; rather than impose one set of morals on a diverse group, situational ethics allow for a wide variety of moral codes, within a basic, minimal framework of what all men and women will accept. Certainly, there is no greater tyranny than the moral outrage of a majority working on those of a conscientious minority, and so situation ethics wisely shies away from broad pronouncements of right and wrong...
...raised and dealt with, must find each other. The benefits of mutual support and encouragement, synthesis of ideas, and organization and pooling of resources and energy would be great. Perhaps students who did find each other in such a manner would be able to accomplish something outside the framework of the current committee system. (In fact, one group of students might work to begin changing such an unrepresentative system--you can bet that the impetus for this could never come from within...
What about unsolved issues? What of problems which all schools still face? For this, the conference is a unique framework for planning and executing joint action and statements. The increased effectiveness of such action and statements is a benefit conferred upon all of the individuals through their unity. As Vicky Mead, a Cornell student, wrote in the Cornell student newspaper concerning the conference: "One recalls the tale of Rapunzel, who let down her golden hair--although rather than climbing up or down our ivory towers, we propose simply to merge them...
...Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski to outline the global problems and prospects for the coming year, and late in December Brzezinski provided him with a thick black dossier. Brzezinski declines to discuss the specifics of that report, of course, saying only that it is concerned with "trying to create a framework for wider global accommodation." This, along with European defense concerns, will presumably be one of the main topics when Carter meets late this week with his chief European allies-British Prime Minister James Callaghan, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt...
...relations between Taiwan and the U.S. These included an American commitment to the security of the island from Communist attack, and a continuation of "government-to-government" relations between Washington and Taipei. Though there was hope in both capitals that economic and political relations would continue in another framework, everybody seemed to agree that the week of Jan. 1 was not an auspicious time for reconciliation. Pleading fatigue, Envoy Christopher canceled a formal dinner with Taiwanese leaders and, at week's end, returned to Washington to sort out America's newest Chinese puzzle...