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...private corporation whose contents belong to the trustees and no one else - and means that too. Both and neither are right; in the end it is the public that pays for tax-deductible gifts to the Met. But what guarantees of principle are left, after the recent sales, to safeguard the Met's collection from the ravages of expedience? That is what the recent fuss has been about and it is the issue on which reassurance is sorely needed...
Early last fall I requested peepholes in student doors, feeling that they, together with proper locks, were the most efficient safeguard for students. My request was cut back to about one-third of the rooms. Only now, three months later, has the President informed me that the remaining peepholes will be provided. This fall the Vice President instituted a midnight-to-eight patrol, one patrolman covering three river-area Houses. Everyone welcomed and supported this step toward better security; but after four months the punch-clocks to insure that the patrolling is actually being done in the House areas have...
...nations, the cost to Russia's ecology has been great. For years Russia maintained a news blackout about the relentless exploitation of its natural resources. When Western journalists tried to confirm infrequent reports of ecological disruption, they met only bureaucratic doubletalk about Soviet laws, decrees and decisions to safeguard nature...
...Democratic caucus, "it is to exercise our separate and distinct constitutional role in the operation of the Federal Government. The people have called for the reinforcement of the checks and balances." House Speaker Carl Albert similarly vowed to "work harder than I have ever worked in my life . . . to safeguard the constitutional role of the House as a strong and influential branch of our national Government...
...early 1970, IOS-managed funds had almost a million shareholders and assets of $2.3 billion; now the count is down to about 300,000 shareholders and assets of roughly $630 million-including the $224 million that Vesco allegedly made off with. But closer regulation of offshore funds might safeguard the money of future investors...