Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aside from some such obvious crime, though, any threat from the courts about the President's official conduct seems pale, pragmatically speaking, when compared to the basic sanction of public opinion. That could change. Just before Watergate split wide open, President Nixon was claiming a broad version of Executive privilege and saying, "Perhaps this is the time to have the highest court of this land make a definitive decision with regard to this matter." With the President thus implicitly willing to abide by the result, this may indeed be the time...
...these problems. We cannot give tacit consent to physicians to behave in manners subject only to the judgment of their own consciences. For their profession is not a private affair: they must be subject to the evaluation of their individual clientele and responsible to the society at large. Historically, sanction by silence has inveitably led to exploitation. Trust becomes a license for abuse. Abuse of individuals by those whom we regard as our healers, constitutes abuse of the whole of humanity...
...Medical School, in its silence, gives consent to physicians and researchers to behave in manners subject only to the judgment of their own consciences. But their work is not a private affair. Historically, sanction by silence has inevitably led to exploitation. Privileges become understood as rights, and trust becomes a license for abuse...
...been quite so chummy. "I first came to know John Monro when we were arguing with Harvard College about the founding of the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American students," says Epps. At the time, Epps says, Monro was unwilling--"as I would today be unwilling"--to sanction an all-black undergraduate organization...
...scandals. And although the President has yet to be personally implicated in any of them, he may face his own legal test if Congress acts upon the ruling of a Federal District Court in Washington. That ruling declared that the prosecution of the war in Vietnam lost its legal sanction upon repeal of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. The ruling recommended studying the Nixon administration's conduct since then, and if Congress follows the recommendation, the President himself will face an investigation...