Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their own. "We're told we can't let them into our facilities for medical treatment," fumes Davis. "That's just stupid." Only a handful of players openly opposed the union in the strike's first days, but a few went along grumbling. "Austria is neutral," said New Orleans Place Kicker Toni Fritsch, an Austrian. New Orleans Player Representative Russell Erxleben polled his membership about dropping the wage-scale demand, perhaps a small crack in solidarity. Though negotiators were finally promising to meet over the past weekend, the players were not heartened by the news that...
...Post: "Even those blacks who criticize the traditional Liberal approach are not willing to say that the best way to help blacks is to get the Government out of the way, and let the market work. We don't have the security to allow the Government to be neutral with regard to our struggle...
...matter of foreign policy. I would presume it's more a matter of implementation thereof. We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights. In your financing institutions, the instructions under President Carter were either to vote against Philippine projects or to cast a neutral vote on the ground that we had violated human rights. Many projects had to be delayed. Some of those projects [approved only recently] had been pending for ten or 15 years...
...Belgian, Swiss or Canadian. One attraction for recruits: new identity papers that protect them from the police. The Deuxième claims to have killed or wounded some 4,000 rebels during the Algerian war, while only 171 of its men were killed and 427 wounded. The unit remained neutral when the First Foreign Parachute Regiment backed an attempted coup against President Charles de Gaulle and was subsequently disbanded...
Kahn gave the public one of its first looks at the world of war games and doomsday scenarios, linkages of events that could trigger a nuclear catastrophe. It all read like a strange new genre: a nonfiction science fiction for an age of "value-neutral" technocrats. Predictably, traditional humanists who felt their influence slipping considered Kahn's intellectual game playing to be an amoral acceptance of mass annihilation. Kahn is, in fact, a conservative moralist. He is also a systems evangelist who puts his faith in the power of reason and works hard to appear more holistic than thou...