Word: shores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CHAPTER 10, entitled "Taking Political Positions," sketches most clearly Bok's ethical distinctions. Introducing the controversial conception of neutrality, Bok states that "there is a difference between the obligations of someone who has pushed an innocent child into the river and the responsibilities of the spectators who line the shore. By taking some positive action that inflicts harm on others, we incur duties that do not fall on the mere bystander [his emphasis]." The implication of this analogy is that Harvard has no complicity in apartheid by virtue of its stock portfolio. "Granted, universities have not caused apartheid in South...
British warships led by the aircraft carriers Hermes and Invincible had nosed into position around the Falklands. The big ships, guarded by antisubmarine frigates and nuclear-powered hunter submarines, were as close as 90 miles to shore, while destroyers interposed themselves between the islands and the mainland to set up a radar "picket" about 100 miles west of the Falklands. Fighting 40-to-50-m.p.h. winds that whipped the frigid seas into 40-ft. waves-momentarily leaving the propellers of the lighter frigates spinning in mid-air-the British task force had begun an effort to choke off supplies...
...ANOTHER CHANNEL, a blue cross rises against a carefully arranged background of metal streaks meant to represent light. Three adorable blond children clad in Lacoste shirts stand in front of it. The program is ending, and after a short pitch for contributions, it is back to the Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Tournament...
...Guatemalan junta has announced plans to dismantle the death squads and bring to trial former government officials. But policy to shore up Guatemala's troubled economy has been made public. New elections, promised by Rios Montt, have yet to be set Clearly it is too early to predict in which direction Rios Montt will go. It should be at least as clear to Washington that to change policy so dramatically to ward a regime which is only a month old is folly...
...kick against the coal companies," says 59-year-old disabled miner Herbert Charles. His hands are covered with scars from bouts with the timbers he used to place to shore up the mines' roofs, and he has black lung. His father and four brothers died of the disease but as he says. "If it weren't for the coal companies I would have had a real hard time finding...