Word: professor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cowles Professor of Government Judith N. Shklar, who sits on the faculty committee which oversees the libraries, says she "would take the Gulf site, if we couldn't get [the other locations...
...most cells, with DNA found in blood or semen at the scene of a crime can provide seemingly indisputable evidence of guilt. But now DNA fingerprinting is itself on trial, and shadows of doubt are falling on detective work that once seemed virtually infallible. Says William Thompson, a professor of social ecology at the University of California at Irvine: "This technology has been steamrollered through the courts, and now it's beginning to get serious scrutiny...
...test as evidence. His decision could have reverberations across the U.S., since evidence from DNA analysis has led to dozens of convictions and helped put at least two men on death row. Now many of these cases may have to be re-examined. Says Randolph Jonakait, a professor at New York Law School: "((The Castro case)) is a bombshell in DNA litigation...
...different concepts of how an economy should work. Americans and Europeans continually tell Tokyo that they want "fair" trade, which at its simplest means equal access to the market. The notion carries moral overtones that do not necessarily jibe with the Japanese view of the world. Kyoto University history professor Yuji Aida recently wrote that "the American predisposition to view things in simplistic black-and-white terms is antithetical to our mind-set. Whereas the U.S. was founded by a people convinced of a single, revealed truth, Japan's long history has taught us that in the realm of human...
...lost its competitive edge go hand in hand with the uneasy feeling that America's standing as the leader of the free world has slipped. "America is scared to death of not being No. 1 any longer," says a foreign banker in Japan. Jagdish Bhagwati, a professor of economics at Columbia University, talks of the "diminished-giant syndrome." A committed free trader, Bhagwati warns that the impulse of declining empires is to throw around their diluted power with such potentially self-damaging measures as trade barriers...