Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bunting is wise to protect itself from legal challenges under Title IX which prevents educational institutions from discriminating on the basis of gender. The institute has too good a reputation to get entangled in a legal battle should any spurned male applicant decide to litigate...
Second, the Foundation's diversity-speak seems designed to protect the University from having to address difficult issues. The whole show kicks off with Dr. S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation, describing how the show represents the "full spectrum" of Harvard students...
...Second, the Foundation's diversity-speak seems designed to protect the University from having to address difficult issues. The whole show kicks off with Dr. S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation, describing how the show represents the "full spectrum" of Harvard students...
Century's dangerous acquaintance answers to the names Knowledge Born, K-God or simply K. All identities in the story have been changed to protect the not-so-innocent, which should include Century. Much of his "inside" information is hearsay. And his practice of using aliases in nonfiction is no less dubious because it is commonplace and a legal safeguard. But Century wants to have his fact and fiction at the same time. It can be tricky. If readers overlook an early cryptic footnote, they will be unaware of the name alterations until they reach a disclosure...
Monsanto's attempt to safeguard its investment in genetically engineered seeds by making sure they can't reproduce seems understandable and justified. It is intended to provide the company with protection similar to that available to developers of hybrids; in most instances, only the first progeny of a hybrid is a marketable crop, and subsequent seed crops do not carry the parents' useful characteristics. Monsanto's effort to protect what is rightfully the company's may help to stimulate further plant research, to the betterment of agriculture and horticulture. TIB SZEGO Lindsay...