Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corporate involvement in South Africa. Before I began my own term on the ACSR, I tended to give the Corporation the benefit of the doubt when it came to the moral sincerity of its South African policy. When cynics suggested that the Corporation used the ACSR merely as a shield against student discontent I responded, with a Philosophy's concentrator's confidence in moral debate, that if the ACSR's facts and arguments were good enough they would have a significant effect on the Corporation's policy. My time on the ACSR has taught me a new lesson
...American medical care, many insurance organizations have begun offering incentives to patients who choose nonhospital surgery. "Anything we can do to keep people out of the hospital is a move in the right direction," says Larry Rodriggs, a spokesman for Blue Cross of California. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Indiana last year began offering subscribers a new policy that would require outpatient care for 125 types of elective surgery, unless the patient could show that hospitalization was essential. Minnesota's Blue Cross and Blue Shield has a similar policy, and others are following suit. Medicare has also encouraged...
...from surreptitious nuclear explosions outside the U.S. Though these orbital watchdogs have identified only a few suspicious events, they have accidentally uncovered a major astronomical mystery: violent outbursts of energy, in the form of X rays and gamma rays, that are observable only above the earth's atmospheric shield. Such puzzling "highenergy transients," as scientists call them, rarely last more than ten seconds, yet they pack a wallop as great as a billion billion one-megaton H-bombs.* What could possibly cause such implausibly powerful explosions far out in space...
...them any means to continue their work simply because we disagree with their attitudes toward the registration Law. Those who fail to register will pay a price for their convictions. But they are still our students We may not agree with them in resisting the law nor wish to shield them from the consequences of their acts. But we surely have an interested in enabling them to finish the education for which they came to us in the first place in our opinion we an interested we will best reconcile our varying interests and responsibilities by following the course...
Meanwhile, behind the military shield, Salvadoran government technicians and U.S. Government officials are moving into the territory reclaimed in Operation Goodwill to repair the roads, power lines, bridges and schools destroyed in the F.M.L.N.'s economic sabotage campaign. Says a U.S. military expert: "You can't bring the guerrilla to bay with military means alone...