Word: informing
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...respect it, like previous courts, accorded to the precedents set by predecessors. Thus the Warren rulings became the basis upon which the Burger Court built its reasonings. It left standing the chief emblem of the Warren era's expansion of defendants' rights, the Miranda decision, which requires police to inform suspects of their rights before interrogation. But it allowed police to dispense with Miranda warnings in emergency situations, weakened the rights of suspects during pretrial procedures and identified some circumstances in which illegally obtained evidence could be admitted in court...
...press members too generally slip into covering official spokesmen without going behind what the spokesmen are saying," said Wicker. "Reporters who don't know what they're talking about rely on spokesmen who usually inform them self-servingly...
...cooperation between state boards and the Federal Government and urges higher medical licensing fees to provide more money for enforcement. Kusserow also favors legal immunity for doctors who report incompetent colleagues. Says he: "They need protection from being sued." Galusha would like to see more pressure on hospitals to inform state boards of any internal disciplinary actions. "There should be civil penalties against hospitals if they do not report," he says. Reformers like Sidney Wolfe and New York State Health Commissioner David Axelrod go even further, suggesting that doctors should be periodically reviewed when their licenses come up for renewal...
...statement on Friday, admitting his complicity in the letter sent to all alumni by the Board of Overseers President Joan T. Bok '51. The letter, which was enclosed in the same envelope as the ballot and which was written on official Board stationary, purportedly exists merely to "inform" alums of the unusual nature of this year's Overseers election, an election in which three candidates are actively campaigning in favor of divestiture. Regardless of the letter's lack of ehtics (not to mention the insult to the intelligence of Harvard/Radcliffe alums), I find President Bok's statement in itself highly...
...apathy, they sometimes also lose the positive side--tolerance for opposing viewpoints. Lately the strategies used by the proponents of divestiture have become increasingly centered on too-bad-if-you-disagree tactics such as the building of shanties in the Yard. Focus has thus shifted from trying to inform the public of the facts to trying to force the administration's hand with lists of demands...