Word: encroachment
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...Tung case, the university insisted that releasing the materials would encroach on academic freedom and undermine the confidentiality that is the backbone of the tenure system. The court dismissed that argument and gave the EEOC broad power to obtain tenure documents. Wrote Justice Harry Blackmun: "The costs associated with racial and sexual discrimination in institutions of higher learning are very substantial . . . Ferreting out this kind of invidious discrimination is a great if not compelling governmental interest...
SCIENTISTS and politicians have never been friendly bedfellows. "Leave us alone, you ignorant former humanities majors!" yell the white-coated researchers who contend that congressional investigations into scientific endeavors encroach upon academic freedom...
Last December, the council nixed a constitutional amendment that would have created the popularly-elected office of a president. Although the majority of council members opposed the proposed change--fearing that a president elected by the entire campus would encroach on their power--the council wisely voted to hold the referendum this week on the issue...
Harvard officials insist, however, that they are not trying to encroach on other universities and establish policies that all must follow. "We're certainly not trying to tell other universities how to behave," Shattuck says. "That is the role the AAU should play...
...Army are leading the crime wave. Accused of taking in the money for the Protestants are members of the Ulster Defense Association and the Ulster Volunteer Force. In the interest of maximizing profits, warring Catholic and Protestant groups that cannot agree on much else have tacitly decided not to encroach on each other's territory. The I.R.A. and I.N.L.A. have the Catholic neighborhoods of West Belfast to themselves, while the neighboring Shankill district and East Belfast are Protestant territory...