Word: abolitionism
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Now, after the abolition of apartheid in 1993, Harvard is reinvesting in South Africa, and Harvard's professors are turning their interest toward the country as well.
Some Cantabrigians say that the clout ofadvocacy groups--traditionally a big part of thecity's political life--has been declining, theresult of rent control's abolition.
She turned her energies to a variety of reformist organizations, joining a circle of postsuffrage feminists dedicated to the abolition of child labor, the establishment of a minimum wage and the passage of legislation to protect workers. In the process she discovered that she had talents--for public speaking, for...
California Regent Ward Connerly strongly defended the state's abolition of racial preferences last night, a little more than a week after the first wave of admissions statistics revealed a significant drop in minority attendance at several prestigious state universities.
Cheryl L. Jones, a fourth year graduatestudent, told Connerly that she "no doubt" hadbenefited from affirmative action in Californiaand worried that its abolition would preventpeople with "disadvantaged backgrounds" fromsucceeding.