Word: safeguard
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...might be argued that control over grading is necesary if the Faculty is to safeguard its educational standards. But the real way in which the Faculty maintains its standards is through its right to judge the credentials of its members. Since this system theoretically ensures that every Harvard teacher is qualified to be teaching, it is hard to see what additional good can be achieved by requiring teachers to grade their students' work...
...eventually bar even this. Nor is it asking too much, says Friendly, to require a man brought to the station house to identify himself. Agreeing with the goal of Miranda-to make certain that the rights of the poor and ignorant are protected-Friendly would give an added safeguard against the third degree. He suggests that all questioning at the police station take place before a magistrate. If the man refuses to answer, Friendly's amendment would permit the prosecution to comment on that fact at the trial...
...Vietnamese press praised him. In a show of support, some 50 members of the National Assembly paraded to the presidential palace, shouting pro-Thieu slogans and waving red-and-yellow national flags. Groups of demonstrators in Saigon carried banners reading THE PEOPLE ARE UNITED TO KILL THE COMMUNISTS AND SAFEGUARD THE COUNTRY...
Particularly galling to the farmworkers was Nixon's remark that the boycott was "illegal and unnecessary" because "we have a National Labor Relations Board to impartially supervise the election of collective bargaining agents and to safeguard the rights of organizers." In fact, as every farmworker is well aware, the National Labor Relations Act specifically excludes agricultural labor from protection, as does every significant piece of labor legislation passed since...
...difficulties involved in raising a large family, new insights into the psychological nature of sexual experience. In the end, though, the Pope rejects them all: "It is not licit, even for the gravest reasons, to do evil so that good may follow therefrom, even when the intention is to safeguard or promote individual, family or social well-being." Paul also cites what he considers the dangers that will stem from widespread use of contraception: an increase in conjugal infidelity, a lowering of moral standards, the loss of respect for women, and finally, the possibility that "public authorities who take...