Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficulty of course arises when it would be possible for you to support him and take care of him, but you would rather not. You might agree if the demand were only for an evening, but hesitate if it were for the rest of your life. Do rights then depend upon the time factor? You could claim a certain moral responsibility towards another human being. But it is hard to say that he has the right to force you to support him. You are not legally required to help an old lady across the street...
...future of the sailing team is very promising, Horn said. "There have been a lot of different people involved in bringing home these victories," he said. "In the past, eight or ten good sailors would contribute. Now there are about 20 people who support the core of seniors...
MANY MONTHS AFTER students asked the University to support consumer student boycotts of J.P. Stevens and Nestle Inc. products officially, the Faculty Council last week ruled that the University should in no case recognize a student boycott even if a majority voted for a boycott in a referendum. The Council claims a University sanction of a boycott would violate the University's academic freedom. If President Bok and the Corporation go along with the ruling, the University will once again have succeeded in dodging a moral issue, as it has in the past in its policies on investments and gifts...
...refusing to back a consumer boycott, the Council guarantees that student boycotts will have little impact. In the case of J.P. Stevens sheets used in the University Health Services' infirmary, students have no way of boycotting without University support...
...Council falsely claims that University support of a consumer boycott would endanger the right of the minority to use the product. In the first place, any student could still use the product privately. And second, refusal to recognize a majority referendum supporting a boycott effectively denies the majority's right not to use the produce: when a student goes to UHS, he has no choice but to sleep on J.P. Stevens sheets, even after the student body has voted to boycott that company...