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...difficult position of having to retain Pakistani support without compromising the aims of a worldwide war on terrorism. Unfortunately, the administration’s efforts to avert the conflict have so far been halting and insufficient. Instead, the most active diplomat has been British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose visit to Pakistan prompted Musharraf to take a tougher line against terrorism. The U.S. must make averting a conflict in South Asia one of its highest foreign policy priorities...
...want Levy and Martin to know that we’re available to help effort to retain key faculty members and researchers,” Hyman said...
...obligation to be a good employer to fulfill its teaching and research missions.” This is an obligation of purely instrumental value; a hypothetical imperative, not a categorical one. To the committee, a good employer provides the wages and benefits “necessary to attract, retain, and motivate employees.” The HCECP identifies only one reason why Harvard must contribute to a “minimally decent standard of living” for workers’ families, namely that such a contribution is required in order to attain the “personnel-related outcomes?...
...many of the same reasons it makes sense for a university to tenure professors, it makes sense for the Smithsonian Observatory to retain scientists to conduct research on a long-term basis. Some of the greatest breakthroughs in science have come from serendipitous discoveries in initially unrelated lines of research. Research that at first appears to have little short-term benefit can yield incredible gains over time. Additionally, the Smithsonian Observatory’s superb record over the last century supports the argument that the observatory’s independence is part of the reason for its continued success...
...ultimate driving machine soon will have a new master. Panke, 55, was named CEO of BMW after Joachim Milberg announced he would retire in May 2002. Panke, now the CFO, has been with BMW for 19 years; in the 1990s, he was head of U.S. operations. He plans to retain BMW's strategy of staying small--and profitable--unlike larger, ailing competitors such as Ford...