Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...existence of any selective social organization at Harvard smacks of elitism and raises serious ethical questions. But the formation of Sigma Alpha Mu is especially troubling--at least to Harvard's Jewish community--because it reflects an unfortunate trend in American Judaism today...
...continue to exist--and we would prefer that it dissolve and go away--that students sit on the side of the owners at the same time," Natale said. "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it any more, and we're absolutely dead serious about that...
Some researchers raise serious doubts about the methodology of guerrilla drug tests. Project Inform is strongly criticized for bypassing an initial phase to establish Compound Q's safety before proceeding to larger, therapeutic dosages and for not having the trials reviewed by an external monitoring group. Says Jere Goyan, dean of the University of California at San Francisco School of Pharmacy and a former FDA commissioner: "If you get people taking these drugs willy-nilly around the country, you'll lose valuable information, and it will be at the expense of future patients...
...SOCIAL CIRCLES. Many U.S. employees feel left out of the established personal networks that exist in traditional European and Asian corporations. "Japanese managers work ten-to-twelve-hour days, then socialize until midnight," says James Lincoln, professor of international business at the University of California, Berkeley. "A lot of serious business is done, which cuts out the American manager and stirs up residual feelings of hurt and distrust...
House mice do pose a health threat, but not one as serious as some have suggested, according to Gary D. Alpert '81, entomology officer in Harvard's Environmental Health and Safety Department...