Mr. Ban may not have singled anyone out, but it seemed a not-so-subtle reference to the Rev. Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, the Nicaraguan president of the General Assembly and a Catholic priest, who issued a position paper last week that created an uproar.
This week, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a group of provosts from Big 10 universities, issued a position paper saying that higher education must take advantage of new education technology — but perhaps on its own.
One of them, Lt. Gen. Michael M. Dunn, chief executive of the Air Force Association, a group promoting that service, issued a position paper on Tuesday saying that Mr. Gates's recommendations "may cost us lives and reduce our strategic options in a very dangerous world".
The American Psychological Association issued a position paper on FC in 1994 (the height of its popularity) saying "studies have repeatedly demonstrated that facilitated communication is not a scientifically valid technique" and calling it "a controversial and unproved communicative procedure with no scientifically demonstrated support for its efficacy".
campaign, Nixon issued a position paper on crime, entitled "Toward Freedom from Fear," in which he accused the Court of "seriously hamstringing the peace forces," to the advantage of criminals, & called for new laws to "redress the balance" & if the Court knocked those laws down, for a Constitution amendment to the same end.
In June, the National Athletic Trainers Associationn, known as N.A.T.A., issued a position paper on the causes, prevention and treatment of skin diseases in athletes that could just as well apply to anyone who works out in a communal setting, be it a school, commercial gym or Y.
In light of the already high, and probably increasing, rate of pediatric overuse injuries, the National Athletic Trainers Associationn in March issued a position paper replete with recommendations that can help prevent these injuries and enable children and adolescents to stay in the game without compromising their health.
In 1969, in the House of Lords, there were physicians who issued a position paper about brain damage, an occupational hazard of contact sports.
Brown's Department of Finance, which issued a position paper against the measure, estimates that 80% to 86% of age-appropriate children — those who turn 5 by Sept. 1 of a school year — attend public kindergarten and that the cost of educating the remaining share would be $276 million to $620 million.
David M. Lodge, the director of the Center for Aquatic Conservation at the University of Notre Dame, has been an author on a series of recent studies of the issue, including a position paper last year from the Ecological Society of America pressing for much stronger federal investment and action.
