Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because Harvard has traditionally required high academic standards from entering athletes and the University is not a particularly prominent member of the NCAA. Bok says as chairman he could strongly urge his ACE group to consider specific recommendations, then act as a neutral mediator without charges of self-interest. "I certainly played a role in getting these presidents together and persuading them they need to look seriously at these problems, and I will continue to do that as long as they're willing to cooperate and that we still have problems left to resolve," he adds...
...reverse current NATO plans to begin putting hundreds of U.S.-built nuclear missiles in Germany later this year. As one Green spokesman put it, "We don't want to be a ball of the superpowers." Another party member explains why the young Germans want to make their country a neutral, nuclear-free zone: "We're the generation that grew up asking parents what they did during Hitler and the war. They my son grown up and asks, 'Daddy, where were you when they turned Germany into concrete?' I have to have an answer...
...player is professional, trained in his trade. Because he is a professional among professionals, there is less of an ability gap among pro players than among college players. For example, if Cornell were to play Texas 100 times this fall, on Cornell's home field or on a neutral field, the Cornelians would undoubtedly lose all 100 encounters. In contrast, on any given day the New Orleans Saints could travel to Pittsburgh and defeat the Steelers...
...sides agreed on a compromise formula that permitted both to claim a measure of victory. Israel dropped its insistence on the word normalization and instead accepted the more neutral phrase "a framework for mutual relations," which would include "liaison, ending of hostile propaganda, the movement of goods, products and persons, and communications." All the main points on the agenda, it was agreed, would be regarded as equally important and would be discussed concurrently "in the light of their interrelationship." Israel would be able to stress "termination of the state of war," while Lebanon could emphasize "complete withdrawals...
...that Sissela Bok wants to rid the world of secrecy. Far from it. She argues that the practice itself is neutral, only good or bad according to the purposes it serves. Says she: "While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive." It is benign, for instance, when it helps human intimacy or the casting of ballots in democracies...