Word: neutralizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seven years," says a Jesuit maxim, "and you may do what you like with him afterwards.") Even with the best of intentions, a dedicated layman "teaching in a school affiliated with his or her faith and operated to inculcate its tenets, will inevitably experience great difficulty in remaining religiously neutral." Moreover, Burger argued, schools have fewer built-in counterweights to inadvertent indoctrination. Among other things, "impressionable" school-age pupils are less likely than college students to challenge their instructors...
Rapid Relief. Applying the treatment, doctors simply puncture early cold-sore blisters and put a neutral red dye at the base of the lesions. They then expose the sore to the light of an ordinary 15-watt fluorescent tube for 15 minutes, wait one to six hours and repeat the process...
...expected that, soon (6 months? two years?), (a) government officials at all levels will adjust their behavior to an eventual VC takeover, (b) defections of significant military forces will take place, (c) whole integrated regions of the country will be totally denied to the GVN, (d) neutral and/or left-wing elements will enter the government, (e) a popular front regime will emerge which will invite the U.S. out, and (f) fundamental concessions to the VC and accommodations to [Hanoi] will put South Viet Nam behind the Curtain." Generally, officials put a carefully cheerful face on matters and berated...
...Marines was posted in the Mediterranean to protect the southern flank of NATO, to "project force ashore" in the event of political crises,* and simply to show the U.S. flag. For a long time the Mediterranean was an American lake; any warship sighted was bound to be either friendly, neutral or innocuous...
Wechsler's call for neutral principles, sounded in 1959, has been amplified by Yale's Alexander Bickel in his book The Supreme Court and the Idea of Progress. "The heart of the matter," Bickel said recently, "is that you can't persuade people that you operate differently from the politicians, who after all can be voted out of office, unless you pursue some other process than they pursue. And that other process has to be one of applying reasons rather than playing group politics." If that is not the case, "the point is that over time...