Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...states a university must ensure intellectual freedom within its community, immunity from the pressures of outside groups, and financial stability, if it is to fulfill its purpose of transmitting and discovering knowledge successfully...
...head tutors are less than obliging. McKinsey said she thinks graduate students make up for their lack of experience with their youthful verve. Besides, she reasons, "You can get the wisdom of the old gray heads in lectures." McKinsey perhaps has a point. But more pertinent is the irritating freedom with which she and others permit their personal opinion to take precedence over Faculty-wide directives. By such retorts these head tutors flout not only the goals of this latest set of tutorial reforms, but the aims of all legislation passed on the subject since the tutorial system began...
...since the fall of the Thieu government in 1975 have also cut into the country's human resources. According to officials in Thailand and Hong Kong, where many of the refugees arrive, Vietnamese officials are privately profiting from the exodus of their citizens who are seeking food and freedom abroad. After interviewing refugees, investigators believe that as much as 50% of the money would-be refugees pay to leave Viet Nam ends up in the pockets of local Communists...
...combat aircraft in all; about 700 Chinese planes are within striking range of Viet Nam. Most of those ready for combat, however, are outdated MiG-17s and MiG-19s, whereas the Vietnamese have not only the slightly more advanced MiG-21s but also the versatile F-5 "freedom fighters" captured from the Americans...
...constitutional amendment that would require balancing the budget in each year. Similarly, all shudder at the thought of a constitutional convention, at which extremists might bring up all sorts of far-out schemes to change the Constitution. Said Beryl Sprinkel: "I don't want to lose the freedom we've got, so I am very concerned about having a constitutional convention." However, added David Grove...