Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Perhaps the policy is in place because the administration is trying to protect the Harvard name. But is it that degrading to our school's reputation to have a soft drink logo on the same banner as our veritas emblem? Springfest is an event sponsored by representatives of the student body, for the student body. And if corporate sponsors will help the council attract more popular performers, then so be it. If the administration fears that corporate sponsors would use Harvard's name for their own promotional purposes, the council could surely remedy this problem in their contract agreements...
...have cornered the market on chassis platforms, and no modular provider wants to start making those, at least not in Europe," says Jurgen Kruschwitz, head of SMH Automotive. "Outside engineering consultants like Lotus may play a larger part in certain functional situations, but the car companies know how to protect their own design and competence...
...theme of this year's annual meeting in Davos. Of course there have been a lot of comments--gleeful or disappointed--about the globalization process being stalled or even in retreat and looking at the crisis as a setback for global capitalism. The actions taken by some economies to protect themselves from the vagaries of gigantic short-term capital flows swinging wildly on the basis of the herd instinct would seem to be a case in point...
These two laws were passed with benign intent. The independent counsel act was designed to facilitate the appointment of impartial special prosecutors. The Inspector General Act was designed to protect patriotic whistle-blowers who seek to reveal malversation in government. But what these laws have in fact done is to create a fourth branch of government--powerful, unaccountable and wonderfully designed to make it hard to recruit people for public service and easy to intimidate them once they are serving. A priority for the 106th Congress should be the dismemberment of these institutional manifestations of our prosecutorial culture. Abolishing...
...Roberto Benigni, nominated as writer, director and star of Life Is Beautiful. As he told the New York Times last week, his movie is "about three little clowns--myself, my wife and the boy--in the most terrifying place in the world. It's a movie about how to protect your innocence, your purity, in the face of evil." What else can one say but Yikes! The only thing worse than listening to mawkish European comics lecture about innocence is listening to mawkish $20 million-a-picture American movie stars do the same. We can be grateful, then, that Robin...