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Financial Vice President Thomas O'Brien said that Harvard wants to "lock in" a fixed 9 percent rate for the bonds to safeguard the University from fluctuations in the bond market...
...federal employees to sign secrecy agreements requiring them to obtain government clearance before speaking publicly or writing about issues within their work. Prior to that, the 1966 Yale graduate played an influential role in persuading Congress not to roll back the Freedom of Information Act, a key legislative safeguard for academic freedom...
Particularly dispiriting was the sense that the U.S. was becoming so bogged down in immediate problems?how to safeguard the Marines, how to keep the Lebanese government from falling apart?that it could not concentrate on the search for a wider peace in the Middle East. With the U.S. battening down for the coming presidential-election campaign, not much in the way of hard thinking could be expected on that front. Nonetheless, the Administration maintained that it was making some progress. The Syrians are still dealing with the U.S. Ambassador in Damascus, and have generally been less bellicose in private...
...precaution against tumor recurrence. For women with a small degree of spreading (measured by counting the number of malignant lymph nodes), radiation treatment is strongly recommended. Women with more extensive spreading may also be candidates for a lumpectomy, but for these patients chemotherapy might be used as an added safeguard. According to Veronesi's colleague, Dr. Gianni Bonadonna, a leading authority on chemotherapy, there is really only one reason for a complete mastectomy: when the tumor is so large that it fills one-third or more of the breast. In that case, he asks, "What would you be leaving...
...dominant feature of U.S. foreign policy, according to LaFeber, has been a fear of revolutions, and Washington has busied itself with preserving the status quo. This stems partly from the need to safeguard U.S. economic interests which might be jeopardized in an upheaval, but also from the inability of American politicians to fathom the right of all nations to the same ideals and liberties they themselves enjoy...