Word: objectively
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From there, Souter shifts gears and looks atHolmes' ethical theories. Souter says that forHolmes, a moral term such as good or bad meant nomore than the "functional efficiency of a law inbringing about a result which the crowd...doesdesire," much as one would use the terms todescribe a physical object such as a knife. Thus amoral law for Holmes, Souter says, is one whichfurthers the interest of a particular individual...
...appropriations: no funded work may involve obscenity, "including, but not limited to, depictions of sadomasochism, homoeroticism, the exploitation of children, or individuals engaged in sex acts." None of those who refused the money produces material that remotely qualifies as obscene. But all of them object to the vague, sweeping language and to the very idea of empowering NEA bureaucrats to set a national standard for obscenity, a matter the Supreme Court has repeatedly said should be regulated by the varying norms of individual communities...
...Locating objects for the telescope has also been bothersome. An exhaustive catalog of guide stars was built into Hubble's computer memory, enabling it to identify both its position in space and the object of its interest. A programmer, however, failed to update the information properly, and for weeks Hubble was looking left when it should have been looking right. That too has been fixed with a software Band...
...they may have to pass through a purgatory of inflation and unemployment. They are also concerned that they may prove to be easy pickings for predatory Westerners, or Wessis in G.D.R. parlance. Certainly, the Wessis are coming. Hotels are packed with Western businessmen eager to cut deals, whether the object of desire is a state-owned company, retail floor space, or a summer home on the Baltic...
...Fendi, a Valentino. The name of every other restaurant seems to begin with le or la, and every other menu includes a dish or two from faraway places. Better off than ever before, West Germans are spending fortunes to keep up with the Schmidts; money appears to be no object ( in the pursuit of distinctive art or eye-catching design in clothes, cars, houses, even the simplest household objects. A society long praised -- and sometimes derided -- for an overgrown work ethic has turned its restless energies to the cultivation of leisure. Enveloped in superlatives, West Germany has emerged...