Word: thorough
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Similarly, the issue of Harvard's assistance to the military need not be put off until Army cadets stand at Harvard's gates. Assurances that normal bureaucratic channels will assure thorough debate should the return of ROTC eventually prove imminent ring hollow while Harvard departments continue, even now, to do research related to military technology and the capitalist development of Southeast Asia. We do not need to wait until ROTC's return is certain to ask ourselves what kind of University Harvard should be. A student vote on ROTC would have set a precedent for future years and provided another...
...current tour, the Taiwan troupe provides thorough program notes and a helpful between-acts narration. These explain to American viewers that in At the River Ford, for example, the all-white face of Prime Minister...
Unfortunately for B.U., its own evidence was too thorough and incontestable. B.U. dropped charges against five of the students immediately, and produced a film which documented what had actually taken place. The film showed the court what the students already knew -- that those named in the injunction had deliberately stayed clear of the blockade. The three remaining students were subsequently acquitted, and B.U. was alerted that due process could not be trusted to block legitimate protest...
Detective Wambaugh is thorough. But he leaves, in fact, few clues as to his prime motive for re-creating what he calls "the most maddening case of any detective's life." One clue is buried midway in the book when Wambaugh tells of a certain "young vice officer" who strongly opposes the department's do-or-die dictum on survival as suicidal. However, that anonymous cop, who undoubtedly is Wambaugh, refuses to challenge his superiors at the time because "he lacked that kind of courage and he knew it." Now, with the courage of a rich...
President Bok told a rain-soaked audience of alumni and parents last June 13 that he is "inclined to agree" with alumni who believe that political pressure on the University rather than a thorough, fair debate on academic grounds drove ROTC from its Harvard base in Spring...