Word: objectivity
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Georgia Senator Sam Nunn called the recipe a "perfect specification, cost-is-no-object" fruitcake. Pentagon officials replied that the elaborate instructions ensured product consistency. The cost worked out to a reasonable $1.51 per lb. About 75,000 lbs. were shipped to U.S. troops, who had no complaints, organoleptically or otherwise...
...right of refusal. A kiss is mute, and highly articulate. It involves a brief fusion of two heads, the head being the residence of mind and soul. The mouth is simultaneously the front office of language and of hunger. The kiss is a wordless articulation of desires whose object lies in the future, and somewhat to the south...
Inevitably, perhaps, these determined efforts to reverse a serious problem have upset some workers and sparked lawsuits and other actions. Many workers who fail drug tests insist that an error has been made, arguing that careers can be ruined over such a mistake. Others object because the tests detect traces of drugs lingering in the body that may have no effect on job performance. According to Dr. Reynold Schmidt, corporate medical director for Unocal, regular users of marijuana, for instance, can test positive in some urinalysis screenings three months or more after their last smoke...
Angry Texas teachers object to a test that may put some of them out of a job. Brown University defends students arrested for prostitution...
...Soviets insisted in Iceland that the treaty be "strengthened" to confine SDI research to the science lab. The first official statement that this was the Soviets' goal came in Gorbachev's interview with TIME in August of last year, when the Soviet leader said Moscow would not object to "fundamental research" on new space weapons. In the end, his definition of permissible research could not be reconciled with Reagan's plans to push ahead with...