Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration's basic problem, the critics charge, is that its rhetoric does not seem to encompass the realities of African politics. White South Africans, particularly, feel that U.S. moral judgments are hypercritical and based on a double standard-an argument that helped Vorster win a huge majority in last fall's national elections. A case in point: Carter in Lagos criticized injustice in South Africa but made no mention of the fact that Nigeria is a tough military dictatorship; criminals are regularly executed every Saturday on the Lagos beach. As the Afrikaner newspaper Beeld put it: "Morality...
...Black Caucus to the U.N. General Assembly. Most reprehensibly, however, the ACSR has chosen to consciously ignore the will of South Africa's black population itself; almost every black student organization and leader not yet banned from South Africa--and those remaining are the moderate groups by almost any standard--has called upon U.S. corporations to leave South Africa...
Christopher Byron's Essay, "What's Behind the Dollar Debacle" [March 20] is certainly on target. America's standard of living has cost us more than we realize. It's obvious that, as Byron mentions, we all look to the President for results. However, it is the President who has been looking to us to adjust our attitudes and lifestyle. We Americans should stop passing the buck and realize that we have a problem that we must solve...
Jones began checking into their diet, mainly laboratory mice provided by a scientific supply house. The mice too turned out to be contaminated by dieldrin, although there was nothing in their standard pellets of food that could account for the poison's presence. Jones, however, did find that there was a potentially damaging concentration of dieldrin in the sawdust used as bedding in the rodents' cages. With all the fervor of a Baker Street Irregular, he then traced the suspect sawdust to a maker of wooden window frames. There, Jones found, the manufacturer had, quite legally, sprayed...
Boilerplate: standard legal language used in motions, wills, pleadings, closings, etc. Also may be defined as excessive verbiage used in routine matters to cover every conceivable contingency. Usually baffling to laymen, but "court tested"-accepted by courts for so long that lawyers have little incentive to simplify...