Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Repeatedly, Carter showed a sentimental streak and a moral blindness in assessing what his friend had done. The man who had campaigned against influential "big shots" and promised to appoint only top aides who met a Caesar's-wife standard of honesty could not bring himself to criticize one who had obviously fallen short of that ideal. Said Carter, ignoring much evidence: "Nothing that I have heard or read has shaken my belief in Bert's ability or his integrity...
...fact, Lance had violated those standards in private life, and Carter was invoking both a protective double standard and an unpresidential bit of sentimentality in refusing to say so. Repeatedly the President praised Lance as "a good and honest man," and, not making the selection of a successor at OMB any easier, predicted that no one could be found who would be "as competent, as strong, as decent and as close to me as a friend and adviser as he has been...
Therapists use various methods: standard talk techniques, meditation and hypnosis, either with individuals or in mass sessions that sometimes smack of revival meetings. In many cases, the discipline sounds more entrepreneurial than scientific. Ralph Grossi, a Pittsburgh hypnotherapist, travels to ten clinics in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia where he treats some 25 people a week with past-lives therapy at $75 per session. An Arizona couple, Dick and Trenna Sutphen, who say they first met and married thousands of years ago, not only operate group seminars but also market tape recordings enabling patients to treat themselves at home. Typically...
...deny the relevance of race in admitting candidates does more than contradict that intention. It would threaten the admissions practices of thousands of institutions across the country, by implying the existence of some numerically fixed standard of merit, such as grades and test scores that cannot be affected by other factors. A standard of this kind would suggest, for instance, that geographical distribution and socioeconomic background cannot be used as criteria in admissions, that Harvard cannot accept a poor black applicant from Alabama over a rich white one from New York City if the latter has a numerically better academic...
Harvard owns $22 million in Standard's stocks and bonds, and $11 million of Texaco...