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...predominance of national security protection as a government function has generated a series of specific policies limiting public access to certain categories of information...
...problem is not limited to business schools. Science whiz kids; computer hotshots; music, art and writing students -- all have worked with professors to create marketable projects. In B-school classrooms, however, the issues of money and purpose may be irresolvably muddied by the institution's bedrock function of providing an education pointed toward profit. Dean John Rosenblum of the University of Virginia's business school notes that, like others, his school routinely participates in corporate-sponsored contests with financial rewards for smart students. Thus he sees nothing inherently wrong in a classroom offer...
...returned to Washington in 1981 after a four-year hiatus, so too did Luce, resuming her position on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Throughout her last years, the elder stateswoman held court among young Republicans as a kind of inspirational eminence, an unmistakable figure at every conservative function, silver-haired, bright- eyed, dripping pearls and epigrams. Of all the laurels bestowed upon her in recent years, perhaps the most fitting was the Sylvanus Thayer Award, West Point's highest civilian honor, given to those who best embody the academy's motto of "Duty, Honor, Country...
Ramon smiles, sensing the ruse. "Currently, sir, the affair in the Gulf is a private function. Just because the U.S. and all the European members of the U.N. are there, you oughtn't get the idea that it's open to the public. Should the general membership of the U.N. be invited, you will see a notice posted on the bulletin board in the foyer...
...Reagan administration opposes the measure, saying it would duplicate the function of already established federal agencies that are developing ocean policies...