Word: basic
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...guerrilla, a pretty prostitute a clandestine agent, the kid who delivered the laundry a secret informer. Flooded rice fields concealed spikes, booby traps permeated jungles, and barracks were vulnerable to terrorist attacks. No wonder the grunts were paranoid and their commanders frustrated. So strategy was reduced to a basic formula: kill as many of the enemy as possible in hopes of breaking their morale. We deployed our vast arsenal, and butchered at least a million of them. We gauged progress by piles of twisted corpses?the grim "body count." Yet the Vietnamese continued to fight. After the war, Colonel Harry...
There are moral reasons why Harvard should meet these standards. In setting its employment policies and budget priorities, and in bargaining collectively, Harvard should give due weight to the basic needs and interests of its workers: their lives are greatly affected by its decisions, and morality requires that all agents consider the effects of their actions on others and avoid unnecessarily causing harm or hardship to anyone...
What the demonstrators are calling for is not only a more satisfactory response to their arguments, but also a more mutually respectful community. They hold that the basic needs of all should be recognized and that policymakers should listen and respond in good faith to well-considered moral objections to their policies—and be open to persuasion by good reasons even if they are offered by people less powerful than themselves. They deserve our support...
...squares. Black lines. Yellow rectangles. White backgrounds. Primary colors, basic geometry. If you can use a ruler, you too can have your creations grace the walls of a museum...
McKinsey reportedly recommended that HLS refocus its programs on basic educational issues, hire more faculty, revamp its regressive grading system and improve quality of life. The new initiative, the brainchild of HLS Dean Robert C. Clark, addresses the first two of these concerns...