Word: role
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush Administration also believed too much in what has become conventional wisdom, even among moderates: arms control is only one item on the larger agenda; the U.S. must simultaneously press the Kremlin on human rights and regional conflicts. All true. But arms control has always had a special role. In good times and bad, it keeps the superpowers talking about their one supreme mutual interest, the avoidance of war. Whichever side seems more engaged in that process is going to have an advantage on other issues and with other countries...
...rumor-heavy press in Hong Kong suggested an altogether different scheme. Newspapers claimed that the ultimate target of the Gang of Elders was not Zhao but Deng; the elders, it was said, intended to force Deng out of his role and replace him with the more conservative and orthodox President Yang. Beijing analysts discounted the theory as overly sensational. In fact, Deng is the most hard-line enemy of the students. Only the party turmoil may have delayed him from lining up support for his position. The massive sweep through Tiananmen could not have been facilitated without the cooperation...
This fall, for the first time, incoming Business School students will spend their first day discussing ethics. The scheduling of this day-long ethics orientation follows two years of B-School indecision about the role ethics should play in its curriculum...
...scope. I try to becareful not to extend my reach where I'm notwelcome or where it's not really part of my rolebecause one can tend to do damage there. One ofthe things that I explored when I was looking atthis job was just what exactly is this role, whatare the issues. I will not be afraid to speak upif I have ideas that I think would be useful...
...problem extends beyond the present. The lack of academic role models for underrepresented groups only guarantees the dearth of future academics, as admitted in the case of women by the Government department last month...