Word: neutralities
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...true that our budget deficit deserves attention. But Tsongas, Warren Rudman and their Concord Coalition use rhetoric that suggests that it is wrong by its very nature. In fact, borrowing money in order to spend it is morally neutral. Our judgment of such borrowing should depend on what it is used for; there can be good and bad deficits. But deficit spending in and of itself can be useful and should not be shamed out of the political debate...
Yasushi Akashi, who ran the U.N. mission in Cambodia, looks back on that $1.5 billion operation with some skepticism. "The quality of personnel was not uniformly outstanding," he says. "Civil administration was an area in which the U.N. had no experience." The peacekeepers were supposed to create a neutral political environment for elections. U.N. officials acknowledged that no adequate control over civil administration was ever established. Materiel was routinely stolen from the airport before being logged in. Cambodian cleaning women stripped the mission of at least 10 computers before they were caught. The wait for official supplies of pens...
Thus, like Prof. Gates, Jamie Billett asks us "not to attack Mansfield"--or his speech agency--but rather to attack the product he puts in the marketplace: his words, their veracity, etc. The speech-bearer and speech marketplace are neutral, and presumably of course systemically harmless. I beg to differ; both bearer and speech can be harmful...
...station is "content neutral," meaning it will show any program produced or sponsored by a Cantabrigian without regard to its content, says Susan B. Fleischmann, director of CCTV...
...MEDICAL PROFESSION. The American Medical Association is officially neutral now but preparing to go into opposition. Like some nonmedical allies, the doctors are worried about being pushed into rationing care. Specifically, they fear that government-enforced caps on insurance-premium increases will prompt insurers to cut costs by dictating in niggling detail to doctors whom they can treat and how. Nurses, however, take a different view: they happily anticipate playing a more important -- and better-paid -- role in patient care...