Word: relationsã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Commission (a body convened to advise the president) issued a report symptomatic of the cloning debate’s flaws. In discussing the “diverse and strongly held views on the subject,” it presented ethics as a business concern, like interest rates and public relations??one more question mark to be balanced in the final appraisal, not the single factor that is overriding and conclusive. Views “diverse and strongly held” are to be balanced by finding those that are “widely shared” and serve...
...River, in Allston, where the University now owns 52 acres of land. Before Rudenstine’s arrival, the University bid for the land under a different name. But the actual deal went through under his tenure. When word leaked out that the buyer was Harvard, town-gown relations??already tenuous—spiraled downward...
...Given the continuing standoff over a downed spy plane and Bush’s characterization of China as a “strategic competitor,” tensions between the two powers have escalated. But one particularly divisive measure—perhaps the most important in Sino-U.S. relations??is a proposed sale of submarines and the Aegis radar system to Taiwan. In this particularly tense time, the arms sale proposed by the Bush administration would be extremely ill-advised and could cause irreparable harm to the relationship between China...