Word: properly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan White House can be fairly faulted for not taking these considerations into account before letting loose the NSC. Nevertheless, Congress ought to content itself with informal understandings as to limits upon the NSC's proper role. Public, media and congressional pressures together with the Tower Panel's scrutiny make it all but certain the NSC staff will have no alternative but to revert to its more traditional limited function. Hiring individuals for the staff who understand and accept this is obviously central. Legislating formal, explicit constraints should be avoided. Just as hard cases tend to make...
While the theory looks promising, Ostriker shows proper scientific restraint. "We still don't know that there are such things as cosmic strings," he says, "or that they are necessarily superconductors or will in fact carry large currents. But all these things are quite possible. Within a few years, superconducting strings will have either transformed our view of the large-scale universe -- or be entirely forgotten...
...would probably cost $2 billion by 1990. Whether Koop's motive was political or not, his report plunged the nation into a thicket of legal and moral questions. Is it unwise to tell third-graders about anal sex and the connection between sex, AIDS and death? Is it the proper function of a public school to push either abstinence or birth control? Is value-free sex education possible, and if not, whose values will be taught...
...Game is capitalized as a proper noun because it is very, very proper. It is like The Country Club: everybody who matters knows that it is in Brookline. Most of these same people know that The Game is The Game...
What kinds of prepublication agreements ... might we consider improper for a scholar? Suppose that [a] widow would only offer materials to the biographer of her husband on condition that she review the manuscript in advance to insure that her husband was "treated with proper respect?" Or suppose that the widow offered her papers only with the promise that she have power to censor the book to insure the accuracy not merely of her own statements but of everything written about her husband. In both cases, the standards are so broad and vague as to carry an unacceptable risk of interfering...