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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...University must give individuals free reign to express their opinions, it must not--except in very rare cases--take institutional moral positions. To do so, Bok warns, is to force the University (1) to open itself up to outside unwanted pressures; (2) to try and develop standards of moral behavior which are virtually impossible to develop and threaten to become obsolete orthodoxies; and (3) to put the University's academic reputation on the line. Though Bok seriously doubts the University's ability to reform society in any way outside of academic discoveries--"rarely will the institutional acts of a single...
...American exports to Iran would be banned, except for the sale of foodstuffs and medicine, which had slowed to a trickle...
...Visas would not be issued or renewed for Iranians, except for "compelling and proven humanitarian reasons or where the national interest of our own country requires...
According to a survey by Dancer Fitzgerald Sample, Inc., a Manhattan ad agency, just about every sport except tiddlywinks has a shot at a fall spot. Two pilots center on football, one each on baseball and boxing. NBC even has one called Drivel-make that Dribble-to-basketball fans. (CBS, of course, is already jumping for the hoops with The White Shadow.) Eight pilots are based on movies. Among them: Breaking Away, Foul Play, The Goodbye Girl, Between the Lines and Freebie and the Bean. The flick series include Semi-Tough, The Main Event (also in the sport grouping...
...EARLY MODERN ERA of the Post was made possible by a grant from Meyer, about whom we learn little, except that he was a shrewd businessman. The highest exercise of his financial acumen came on St. Patrick's Day, 1953, when, according to Bray, he and his son closed "one of the truly great deals in American newspaper history. They set the company on the course of empire." What they did was buy the competition, the Times-Herald, a move that a less sympathetic chronicler would call monopolistic, not brilliant. Without competition, prosperity for the paper and its owners...