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...heightened political involvement of the faculty dating from the New Deal era set the stage for potential conflicts, but the first serious test case came in the 1950s with the rise of McCarthyism. Then, Harvard was forced to defend political actions on the part of some of its faculty lest its silence tacitly betray them. Time and some thoughtful action resolved the immediate crisis during that Cold War era, but the issue of University tolerance of faculty activism remains both relevant and divisive...
...Lest there be any doubt that the issue will figure in the presidential campaign, Democratic Front Runner Walter Mondale last week denounced the plan as "dangerously destabilizing" and called for a freeze on military uses of space. The Democrats believe that the President's embrace of antimissile weapons will fan fears that he is a trigger-happy nucl ear cowboy...
...other hand, we also have rules to protect those who seek our assistance, lest they suffer by our internal guidelines. One of these rules, if the Council had chosen to apply it, would have given the Rugby Club its money. The choice was very clear-cut, not "tangling" or "strangling" as the article implies. The Council must decide between two values: responsibility and consistency in our grants to undergraduate organizations, or much-needed assistance to one undergraduate organization. Both values are very attractive ones, and each drew support from many members: but with our limited resources we cannot have both...
...intelligence committees of Congress were informed, and assented, but from the first, members of the House Intelligence Committee worried lest the contra campaign cause a widening war in Central America that could eventually involve the U.S. directly. They wrote into law a provision that no American money could be used "for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Nicaragua...
...actually making the garment, and the designer's sales expenses and promotion budget are often included. What a U.S. store pays, however, can be as much as 1½ times the first cost-the "landed" cost of the clothes, which covers all the freight, customs and handling charges. Lest any aspiring store owner shrink from such an investment, it should be recalled that each store marks up these imported garments between three and 3½ times its first cost. That's retail to you, Jack, and perhaps now it comes a little clearer how stores can make...