Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are occasional outbreaks on college campuses, recently including North Carolina State at Raleigh, Siena and C.W. Post colleges in New York, Bradley University in Illinois, Kent State in Ohio and Texas Tech in Lubbock. The probable reason: students received vaccine made before 1980, when a lack of stabilizing ingredients sometimes caused vaccine to lose its potency...
These sensationalized aspects of the Tower battle are riveting, but they distract from far more universal questions about the conduct of public officials. The reason ethics in Government seems so tiresome is that the goal has become obscured in a legalistic fog of disclosure requirements, recusations and blind trusts. Lost in the mist are commonsense standards for integrity in Government like these...
...reason politicians are acting so swiftly on the CFC problem may be that the threat is indisputable. Strong evidence of the effect emerged in 1985, when British researchers announced the existence of a seasonal "hole" in the ozone layer over Antarctica. That was worrisome: ozone between ten miles and 30 miles up absorbs the sun's ultraviolet radiation, which has been linked to cataracts, skin cancers and weakened immune systems in humans and other animals, as well as to damage to plants. Data-gathering flights in the Antarctic in 1987 made the connection between CFCs and ozone destruction...
...always wanted to come to Harvard," Hughes says. "The only reason I even looked at the other schools [that were recruiting me] is that I wanted to make sure it was the right choice...
Hughes has certainly given his father ample reason to be proud. Ranked third in his graduating class, he has received numerous off-the-ice honors, including being named the Hartford Whalers Best Student-Athlete in New England and being selected All-scholastic by both The Boston Globe and The Boston Herald. Harvard was the natural choice when it came time to decide which school he would attend...