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Rosovsky counters, however, that making Core proposals public may endanger reputations. Confidentiality, he says, protects professors whose course suggestions the committee rejects. This attitude appears overly protective. As Berman said of his experience on the committee: "If there is one thing I have learned in the past year-and-a-half it's that above all Faculty members hate to be embarrassed. You've got to indulge them so they don't back out and just not offer the Core course...
...Hastings Center, which is based in New York, provides information on biomedical ethics to universities and congressional legislators, sponsors lectures, and runs programs in ethical research and development. Bok is currently co-directing a two-year Project on the Teaching of Ethics for the center. The project committee will present a report in a year-and-a-half on what universities are offering in the way of ethics courses in undergraduate and pre-professional curricula. Freund and President Bok are among the advisers to the project...
...project is under fire now, with a year-and-a-half of its two-year contract already run, because students fear that Taiwan plans to turn its new-found technology to military purposes...
...last May, and has since inched down to 8.3%. Members of TIME'S Board of Economists unanimously predict, in line with most other forecasters, that it will still be above 7% at the end of 1976-meaning that it will be as high after a year-and-a-half of recovery as it has been at the bottom of some previous recessions...
FRANCE has moved ahead of all its Common Market neighbors in its antirecession efforts. Its actions follow a year-and-a-half battle to curb inflation. By September, however, it was obvious that the nation's output would show a decline of more than 2% this year. At that point, President Giscard ordered almost $7 billion pumped into the economy in the form of investment subsidies, corporate tax breaks and public works programs. As a result, France should have the most vigorous recovery in Europe next year...