Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elitist attitude which exemplifies much of what is wrong about Harvard. The ability to get good grades and the ability to play a musical instrument are merely skills. Like any other skills, they are acquired by a combination of innate ability and practice. They are also ethically neutral; they can be used for ill as well as for good. I see no magical distinction which makes them "better" than the ability to play hockey...
Having recognized the political ramifications of education in South Africa the University should realize that involvement in that country, whether through students or investments, can not be neutral. Harvard has to pick sides and the choice is obvious. The first step is admitting that the University's over $400 million of investments in companies that do business in South Africa is at least as politically objectionable as the ill-fated internships...
...have an epidemic in this country and people are scared. Cities and schools have to have procedures," Duehay said yesterday. "It may end up it is mostly educational, but you can't remain neutral in the face of an epidemic...
Reagan indicated last week that he might consider an oil import fee, but only as part of a "revenue-neutral" tax-reform package; he remains adamantly opposed to raising taxes for reducing deficits. But he might be persuaded to change. Senior White House staff members were secretly polled a month ago by their boss, Donald Regan, as to whether Reagan eventually would accept a tax increase in order to get a budget deal. They voted 11 to 3 that he should not, but would...
...neutral, and we then hope to have the same relationship with the people of the Philippines that we've had all these years," the President said at a nationally televised news conference...