Word: outweighing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...constant trafficking in emotions, like closeups of people in pain being lifted into ambulances. This nightly distorted accumulation of police-beat misfortunes makes any city look like a disaster area. Items are tailored to the attention threshold of the least patient viewer. That is what happens when entertainment values outweigh news judgment...
...liberal and pragmatic value system that prevails at Harvard now, I don't mean to imply any separation between myself and the phenomena I am describing. Like most people here, I think the world taken as a whole is a sad place, where suffering and lack of freedom far outweigh happiness and liberty. I think that sadness is deeply rooted in the present structure of things, but not in the nature of things; in the abstract, it does not have to be. But if the world is in need of the most major sorts of changes, I do not really...
Gibson said last Friday he does not expect students to object to using card readers on campus because, he said, the readers are already used by banks and charge card companies. In addition, he said, "the advantages to limiting access so outweigh the inconveniences" that he believes students will accept installation of the readers...
...members of the CUHS are from the Psychology and Social Relations Department, just as most of the projects it reviews are in psychology. The committee is supposed to ensure that no humans are subjected to risk of any kind; or that if an experiment must involve risk, its benefits outweigh its dangers and its subjects fully understand those dangers and freely agree to participate...
...called News speculated that possible successors for Brewster included James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard ("It's unclear whether the prospects of replacing Brewster would outweigh the loss of prestige and nearly $25.000 salary cut he would undergo if he left Harvard"). Hale Champion, Harvard's financial vice-president ("The word from Cambridge is that he's itching to move into a position with more power"), Charles U. Daly ("works part-time as Harvard's vice-president for government and community affairs"), and various other Harvard faculty administrators...