Word: code
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstration will be the first major test of the B.U. Provisional Student Disciplinary Code, which was approved last April...
Chesca Bang, chairwoman of yesterday's meeting at Marsh Plaza, asked students to defy chapter 5 of the code and risk suspension by leaving their B.U. identification cards at home while they picket...
...friend to his patient as both a technophile (friend of medicine) and an anthropophile (friend of man). We seek an answer to the contradicitions in the physician's oath: Is the doctor foresworn primarily to prolong life or to curtail suffering? Is he bound primarily to a legal code or his own conscience? Furthermore, the sacred age-old injunctions to confidentiality and non-criticism inside the medical profession are not always the most pragmatic or desirable self-regulations. Is not the exorbitant cost of medical care a contradiction of the physician's supposed heart-felt concern for the ailing...
...through loopholes. Moreover, indirect subsidies through loopholes are usually more expensive than direct government action and mean less money for socially useful public services (which have been branded "inflationary" by the Nixon Administration) like health care, housing, education and aid to the handicapped. In short, the Federal Internal Revenue Code amounts to "socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor...
What is required is the sustained pressure of low and middle-income taxpayers on Congress, and especially on the House Ways and Means Committee which is now reviewing the tax code. This pressure is especially important given the efforts being made by those who enjoy special privileges to preserve the present system. Harris' campaign is timely since the Ways and Means Committee threatened recently to postpone serious consideration of tax reform until after it acts on a new trade bill. Such procrastination could severely reduce the chances for substantial reform...