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...actions taken against the harasser involved; the stated reason is concern lest the victim "go public" with the incriminating data. This concern, though, is as misplaced as it has been all along. By scrupulously protecting the identities of professors found, in the wrong, the University not only indicates a tacit solidarity with the offenders but allows dangerous misperceptions to grow. A case in point is the problem noted by some minorities last year--that both of the two harassment incidents publicized over the last few years concerned minority professors, leading to the completely erroneous perception of harassment as somehow...
...tacit recognition of the incompatibility of their work with a university environment, they have established a private organization--the International Foundation for Internal Freedom. Leary has already left the University to devote his full energies to the group, and Alpert had also planned to spend much of his time with the Foundation during his year at the School of Education...
This is not to say that Gary Hart does not have some solid, serious ideas buried in his grab-bag of slogans. His tacit acknowledgement that competition in the most effective way to direct resources generous interesting proposals aimed not to subsets the month but to patch up its failures. His blueprint for "Revolving Industrial Vitality" makes a lot of sense--to compile better information for investors, and to alter financial regulations to free up investment finds for businesses, especially small ones, would do much to encourage increased production. His plans for workers, providing elaborate government training and matching programs...
...that the Lebanese situation "has convinced Egyptians and all Arabs that Israel does not want peace in the Middle East." To top it all off, the Egyptians are casually reminded of the valuable technical assistance provided by Soviet engineers in the construction of the Aswan Dam project, with the tacit promise that more aid will be forthcoming if and when relations are normalized...
Nonetheless, British Energy Minister Nigel Lawson met separately with the ministers from Venezuela and the United Arab Emirates. All three were mum about the talks. Some oilmen in Britain, however, believe the U.K. might reach a tacit understanding with OPEC to avoid a price war. Further price cuts could, after all, drain revenues from the sagging British economy. But any agreement to limit production would go against Thatcher's staunch free-market philosophy, and would also violate contracts that give private companies, including British Petroleum and Royal Dutch/Shell, the right to pump North Sea crude...