Word: specters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty Council took steps this spring to end inequities in grading, but did not do anything about grade inflation, that awful specter...
Most scientists breathed a sigh of relief; the specter of local governments proclaiming a hodgepodge of crippling restrictions on the freedom of inquiry had faded-at least temporarily. Local politicians now may go along with the impending federal legislation, which is expected to impose restraints on all researchers-including those at previously unregulated industry labs. Still, scientists remain concerned over any political controls on their work. At last week's Senate hearing, these fears were voiced by Norton Zinder, a molecular geneticist at Rockefeller University. Said he: "We are moving into a precedent-making area -the regulation...
...taking a high moral tone with some nations, while making pragmatic exceptions for others? The Vance statement arbitrarily condemned three countries not only as immoral but as unimportant to boot. To his credit, Vance admitted that there was a strain of hypocrisy in the new policy. It raised the specter of endless arguments over which countries deserve or do not deserve assistance...
...home and abroad. The Soviet and East European economies are strained, Soviet influence in the Middle East continues to decline, and the "victory" of pro-Russian forces in Angola is proving a mixed blessing, because it has led to a new American concern about Soviet expansionism. Besides, a specter is haunting Europe-the specter of Euro-Communism, which proclaims itself independent of Moscow and professes all kinds of liberal and even democratic heresies...
DURING LAST fall's presidential campaign, Republican spokesmen raised just this specter of rubber stamp government. In light of some of President-elect Carter's recent actions, however, it appears that liberal Democrats may have just as much to fear as their conservative counterparts. The nominations of Griffin Bell, Harold Brown and James Schlesinger to the Carter cabinet are cases in point. All three nominees possess views that are incompatible not only with Carter's campaign promises, but with liberal Democratic positions on civil rights, defense spending, and nuclear energy...