Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan to move them from the Beirut airport area to safer ground in Lebanon or to amphibious vessels offshore. Their place at the airport would then be taken by Lebanese soldiers, by other members of the Multi-National Force, or possibly even by troops from an as-yet-undesignated neutral nation. Within the Administration, some aides question whether the Marines are performing any really effective function in Lebanon. But the President is not prepared to pull them out in the face of Syrian military pressure, and he has considerable support for this position. In his regular radio message last Saturday...
...Harvard an employee can talk with a supervisor, or with Ginn. or with a neutral officer in Central Personnel, or with the General Counsel's office (Ann Taylor's domain). If a worker is dissatisfied with the results she gets at these levels, she can appeal either to a formal hearing, held under the General Counsel's auspices, or to formal arbitration. A formal arbitration beard is composed of three judges--one chosen by the employee, one by the Dean of the Faculty, and one chosen from among experienced arbitrators in the graduate schools. If all else fails, as with...
...about. On Cambodia, there were constant explanations. Here was President Nixon pointing to maps and charts. Here was Henry Kissinger making the point that we were bombing not a neutral nation but an enemy-base area. The victims of The Day After were all Americans, most of them civilians, many of them women and children. As we watched them being engulfed in flames, we could identify with them and feel richly sorry for ourselves. It was harder to watch a film of Americans doing the killing, to hear...
...pretty skeptical about them last year. I didn't know what sort of thing they were going to do," he recalls adding, that the presentation was "as value neutral as any presentation of that sort could hope to be. They were so matter-of-fact that anyone would have felt absolutely stupid trying to cut up during...
...PRESS, however, is a neutral unit. Remaining as well informed as it can be, the press functions as a sort of watchdog, putting in perspective the actions of the country at large. The country at large is then well trained in understanding what is hype and what isn't. We filter the information we receive and then turn to the analysis we want to choose. We are free to subscribe to the New Republic or the New Statesman, depending upon our opinion...