Word: preservationism
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The epitome of Liberal Democratic rule ever since has been preservation of the status quo. The ruling party's pro-business slant and its ability ensure political stability were large parts of the impetus for the Japanese economic dynamo. For more than three decades, Japanese economic prowess was synonomous with...
As one of its reasons for rejecting the Paramount bid, Time had asserted the necessity of preserving its corporate culture to ensure the editorial independence and freedom of its publications. While Allen stopped short of endorsing that concern as a primary basis for blocking a takeover bid, he indicated that...
The gesture seemed nice: Stanford University would return some 550 ancient remains to the Ohlone Indians. "Indian beliefs hold ancestral remains to be sacred," wrote Stanford provost James Rosse. The result, though, was one nasty academic fight. Bert Gerow, an emeritus professor of anthropology at Stanford and curator of the...
What I found shocking was her failure to make any mention of the courage and sacrifice of the young Chinese students who champion the very values Ms. Bhutto so passionately pleaded for. While such a glaring omission could be viewed as political expedience designed not to offend current Chinese leadership...
Last week the Bismarck's hulk was discovered some 600 miles west of the Brittany port of Brest by Robert Ballard, the undersea explorer who in 1986 located the wreck of the passenger liner Titanic. As in the search for the Titanic, Ballard, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic...