Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This was the civilized thing to do. When Aeroflot and other Eastern Bloc civilian airliners fly over restricted American airspace in order to test our response time, we scramble fighters and shoo them away, but we do not even consider shooting them down, for this is so outside the scope of international law and of our own morality that it would never become an issue...
Grave constitutional questions are sometimes posed by less than nation-shaking issues. Case in point: the first test of the scope of the Supreme Court's June ruling against the so-called legislative veto (Immigration and Naturalization I Service vs. Chad ha) is being raised by an anemic auction | of coal leases...
Isaac's supporters claim Harvard's failure to grant him tenure stemmed from the University's decision to restrict the scope of the Afro-Am department to exclude Isaac's fields of African study...
...academic freedom: The Nuclear Free Cambridge Act specifically excludes nuclear medical research and carefully limits its scope to work directed toward the creation of nuclear weapons or their delivery systems. Both Harvard and MIT have regulations against such research and neither would be affected by the legislation. It must also be remembered that nuclear weapons research is shrouded in tight secrecy which is a far cry from the free communication of ideas and information which is the ideal of academic inquiry...
Some persuasion, however, did take place. After the meeting with the CCSR, the ACSR broadened the scope of its inquiry from the question of screening investments to the University's South Africa policy as a whole. As the Committee spent more time on the issue and examined more evidence, several members who had balked at the rigid use of the Sullivan Principles as the standard of corporate behavior and at the establishment of fixed limits on correspondence with the managements of delinquent companies accepted these positions. General divestiture became a viable topic for debate...