Word: basic
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Nations ought to be able to exempt certain basic services from private competition; governments ought not to depend on private organizations to deliver a nation’s mail, or even provide a nation’s healthcare, if that government so chooses. Such exemptions and protections ensure that governments will have the ability to directly provide for the day-to-day functioning of society and be accountable for those services’ successes and failures...
...FTAA promises to help developing nations and wealthy countries alike by expanding NAFTA’s successful free trade experiment. By ensuring that nations’ basic government services are protected and legitimate labor and environmental standards are included, the FTAA should be able to increase economic prosperity while at the same time respecting workers’ rights and the environment...
...there is another level at which protection from academic consequences would be counter to the University’s basic mission. When McCarthy-era administrators sought to judge the ideologies of professors, they were rightly opposed by supporters of academic freedom. Those supporters should equally oppose attempts by the University or by professors to dole out rewards and punishments based on the ideologies of their students...
...February conference, Eisenberg urged that more basic research be done into the efficacy and safety of herbal therapies and other non-traditional treatments...
...think in the next years we'll see more basic science. This is necessary for the field to mature," he said at the time. "We need more definitive trials...