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...accepted the International Atomic Energy Agency's inspection safeguards and urged Israel to open its own nuclear facilities to IAEA inspectors. Unlike Iraq, Israel has not signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, which would require it to allow visits by the IAEA. Israel argues that the treaty is meaningless unless peace is established in the Middle East and fears that the international inspectors could acquire a dangerous degree of access to key security areas...
Some students noted that about 30 per cent of the Harvard war dead were not Protestant and that therefore a memorial church would be inappropriate, since Roman Catholics. Jews, Christian Scientists, and Agnostics would not worship in it. Others circulated flyers asking. "What Would Our Dead Have Wished?--A Meaningless Memorial...
Responding to this challenge, Lowell wrote, "A memorial to men who died for a cause is meaningless for that purpose if it includes those who died for a different or contrary cause....To say that no memorial shall be raised to men who gave their lives for a cause unless those who died on the other side are included is either to condemn the cause as unworthy of the sacrifice; or to say, like barbarians, that all warfare is glorious, and that all who died in battle are to be honored simply because they were warriors...
Nonetheless the prime rate remains the bench mark by which most people measure the cost of credit. But a new report by the House Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Committee suggests that the once sacrosanct prime has become almost meaningless as a guide to what most borrowers-big or little -actually pay. The report, which mainly addresses the prime rate's application to business borrowing, found that it rarely applies to large, profitable corporations. They can usually borrow money at three to four points below prime, a discount reflecting the importance of the volume of their business with their...
After a grueling 7 games in 8 days, the first team planned to sit and rest its sores instead of playing in the now meaningless New England Championships...