Word: protection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recklessly, pursued their goal: to churn out all the warheads the military believes, perhaps prudently, are needed to maintain the U.S. nuclear deterrent. Now they are being charged with ignoring the dangers that their operation of deteriorating facilities may have inflicted on the very citizens they were supposed to protect. Ohio's Senator John Glenn summed up the situation with ironic clarity: "We are poisoning our people in the name of national security...
...belief that local taxes might be marginally decreased is to accept a definition of community as being limited to a group of individuals gathered together with common borders, and nothing more. It is an abandonment of the idea that members of a community must grow together, work together, and protect each other...
Tseng broke Harvard's conflict-of-interest policies by exaggerating his research results to boost the value of his stock in the drug's manufacturer. "A significant conflict of interest had occurred," said Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson. Tseng's research "was run without sufficient safeguards to protect against potential bias," he said. Tseng's supervisor, Associate Professor of Medicine Kenneth R. Kenyon, held $340,000 in the company's stock...
...this point, fears that gross financial interests may be distorting Harvard's pursuit of knowledge appear to be turning into a reality. If Harvard, which some believe to be the world's finest university, cannot protect the purity of its academic mission, who will? Unless the University can present convincing evidence that such incidents will not occur again, it is time that Harvard withdraw its individual and institutional relationships with industry...
PHILADELPHIA--Production of the nation's supply of flu vaccine has been delayed up to two months and supplies will be short during the best time to protect patients, pharmaceutical firms and public health officials said yesterday...