Word: neutralizes
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...release the survey statistics--albeit in their preliminary form--to peer educator groups before the rest of the student body cast an unfortunate shadow over the results. While it is understandable that the statistics could be useful for these groups' work on campus, there is no reason to provide neutral statistics to some students before others. The fact that Peer Relations and Date Rape Relations (PRDRE) was asked not to use the statistics in its presentations to students before their official release eliminates any advantage gained in providing them to the group in advance. In the future, UHS should remember...
Students at the informal gathering were largely neutral about the policy change...
...Ford's chief executive and current head of damage control, Jacques Nasser, is casting the shift in neutral terms - pointing out that for the first time, the customer will be able to choose his tire when buying an Explorer. Asked if that meant the end of the besmirched Firestone brand on Ford vehicles, Nasser said only, "The customers will decide." (Firestone, which hasn't been fired by Ford, is nevertheless bracing for a bit of a slowdown...
...dollar. In view of the monstrous U.S. trade deficit--a hemorrhage of greenbacks spent on foreign goods that is currently heading toward $400 billion a year--it is a bit surprising that that hasn't happened already. The reason, says Blinder, is that "the representative centimillionaire in a neutral country like Switzerland or Singapore, sitting down to figure out where to put his last $10 million, is saying, 'The U.S. looks pretty good.'" So the dollars spilled abroad by the trade deficit come right back in the form of investment, and the buck stays strong...
...this is not an option in ours. We must beware that greatest of all temptations: the belief that all that time leading up to the moment of choice is morally neutral. This temptation promises that we're not responsible for electing a president unless we vote; we're not responsible for our actions until we become self-aware; that we haven't really picked a post-graduate job until we are happy with...