West Germany voices objections to European genome project

South West Africa Cases: Preliminary Objections

ETHIOPIA and Liberia, in applications to the International Court of Justice, alleged that the Union of South Africa [South Africa] has violated Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations and the terms of a Mandate under which it has responsibility for administering the Territory of South West Africa. Specifically the petitioning states charge that South Africa, in administering the ter...

Objections to hospital philosophers.

Like morally sensitive hospital staff, philosophers resist routine simplification of morally complex cases. Like hospital clergy, they favour reflective and principled decision-making. Like hospital lawyers, they refine and extend the language we use to formulate and defend our complex decisions. But hospital philosophers are not redundant: they have a wider range of principles and categories a...

Conscientious objections to reform.

Dutch Objections to Evolutionary Ethics

While strolling the streets of Amsterdam, Sidney Smith, the renowned editor of the Edinburgh Review, called the attention of his companion to two Dutch housewives who were leaning out of their windows and arguing with one another across the narrow alley that separated their houses. Smith remarked to his companion that the two women would never agree. His friend thought the seasoned editor had i...

Rent indices for housing in West Germany 1985 to 1998

In several studies, hedonic methods have been used successfully for the ex post assessment of the accuracy of inflation measurement. Most of these studies relate to high-tech products, with respect to which traditional methods of compiling price indices often fail. We apply hedonic methods to rental housing services, which display less quality progress. However, as German households spend about...