Word: accession
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Harvard Yard's main liaison to Capitol Hill, however, is Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck. A former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, Shattuck has sparred with the Reagan and Bush administrations for such just causes as more federal financial aid and freer access to classified information...
...have a tradition of free and open access to scientific meetings in this country," said Harkness Professor of Biological Chemistry Elkan R. Blout, who sits on the institute's policy board. "Unless we maintain that tradition, we're not living up to our code as scientists...
...predicts "potential problems" for both the chemical-weapons treaty signed at the summit and an eventual pact to reduce strategic nuclear warheads. But the biggest trouble at the moment is a bipartisan rebellion against a trade agreement that would grant Moscow most-favored-nation trade status (which actually means access to American markets on terms equal to those enjoyed by most other countries...
...vote, the high bench upheld the constitutionality of Congress's 1984 Equal Access Act. The measure says that no public secondary school receiving federal funds may bar student clubs on the basis of their "religious, political ((or)) philosophical" views, if the school permits one or more "noncurriculum" groups to meet after school hours...
Decisively coming down on the side of free expression last week, the court gave that statute a broad interpretation. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor declared that the law's equal-access requirement can be triggered by the presence of any group, even a chess club, that does not "directly relate to the curriculum." She maintained that, just like college students to whom the court has previously applied equal-access principles, "secondary school students are mature enough and are likely to understand that a school does not endorse or support student speech that it merely permits on a non- discriminatory basis...