Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole thing was kind of strange," Danehy said, adding, "The workers didn't know about it until it was time to move ... For some reason it didn't manage to leak...
...along the way, when it tells its students they will have only the tiniest say in forming a new curriculum, and no say at all in deciding whether to get rid of certain lucrative stocks or a well-endowed name on its new library, there is always a good reason for doing so. There are budgets and timetables and procedures to be followed, all rational and reasonable and efficient, and the men and women who run the University have no real choice but to follow them. At least they do not have a choice as long as they imagine themselves...
...TAUGHT, before I came to Harvard, that this is wrong. I learned that situation ethics have only a limited value--that they can be applied only where there is not a great, compelling moral reason on the other side of the fence. Although I learned to be careful not to apply my own standards to every case--to be tolerant of other views, which the vast majority of the time do not involve great moral principles--I was taught that occasions still arise when it is simply wrong to ignore the basic moral principles. The most basic of these...
...event, Tributsch has a personal reason for doing further research into the matter: the Friuli area, which lies in an active quake region, is the scientist's birthplace...
Perhaps such significant shading is one reason why Le Monde's Middle East veteran, Eric Rouleau, reflects that U.S. journalism got trapped in clichés about "the progressive Shah" beset by "fanatic religionists." But when it comes to nationalism, how about the French? They allowed Ayatullah Khomeini a sanctuary they rarely grant other political exiles to campaign for the Shah's overthrow. Rouleau speculates that the French, miffed by being shut out of Iran's arms deals, "took a calculated bet that it wasn't a bad idea to be host...