Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year Harvard Law School (HLS) stands to lose almost $1 million in federal grants due to its ban on military recruitment at its Office of Career Services (OCS). The ban, which exists because of the military's policy regarding homosexuals, is an important measure of protest that HLS should uphold. The loss of funding with which the law school is threatened is an act of aggressive financial coercion which inappropriately ties scholarship money to the school's right to uphold its on-campus non-discrimination policy...
...time, Zionist terrorism was replaced by Palestinian terrorism, and war and grief were never far away. The perpetual threat of conflict forced increases in Israeli defense budgets and made enormous economic support by the U.S. necessary. Against all odds, foreign and internal, the Israelis have managed to build and uphold the most democratic country in the Middle East. However, Israeli society is more torn than ever before, and the historic chance to achieve peace is fading. I wish Israel the best and hope its people recognize that the glittering prize--peace--could be theirs for the anniversary. ULRIK MADS HANSEN...
...admissions standards for whites and for various racial minorities. There is an inconsistency of logic in arguing against the principle of "separate, but equal," as in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, when this was detrimental to minorities, and now, when it ostensibly benefits minorities, fighting to uphold a system of "separate, but equal," standards in admissions to the nation's institutions of higher learning...
...Harvard should work with other universities to establish a system of independent monitoring to uphold this code of conduct...
...best way of doing business, it doesn't matter where it comes from. All durable cultures must uphold honesty, otherwise a society will not survive. If dishonesty is admired, a society must break up. The easiest way to stop corruption is to have the minimum of opportunities for public officers to exercise discretion. So have open rules. One of the most difficult things to establish is a culture hostile to corruption. Once you accept that the policeman can stop you on the road for an alleged traffic violation and you must slip him $2 or $5 to settle...