Word: proof
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Race directors, however, will not take action against Ruiz, Cloney said, because they have no definite proof she did not run the race. Officials at checkpoints along the 26-mile course verify only the first 100 runners to pass the checkpoint, without regard to the sex of the runners...
What emerges from the letters is a relatively conservative philosophy toward effecting reform; he continually tries to shift the burden of proof to those who are demanding change. One critic points to what he calls an "essential hypocrisy" in the president's philosophy. On the one hand, Bok argues that universities should not actively seek a moral role or assume moral positions, that they are somehow "above the fray." On the other, Bok, as his letter on divestiture reveals, does not believe that "one can somehow achieve moral purity by separating oneself entirely from evil." In the spring...
Ralf Dahrendorf, director of the London School of Economics, argues that the welfare state produces what German Sociologist Max Weber called "the iron cage of bureaucratic bondage." He admits that centralization and government activity in the modern economy are inevitable but stresses that in the future the burden of proof for turning over functions to the government must rest "on the centralizers and not the other way around...
Cameron said he believes proof of the existence of Charon negates a hypothesis which postulates that Pluto originated as an escape satellite of Neptune. "It's difficult for Pluto to be an escape satellite and have a satellite of its own," he said...
City Manager James L. Sullivan called the University's action "proof that Harvard has more interest in the almighty dollar than in Cambridge's financial plight," and added that the city will demand Harvard pay back taxes on the land, located north of Lesley College...