Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...affirmative action policy currently in place in California is indeed unfair. Our society is still dominated by racism and classism, thus tilting the ledger in favor of those at the top--often towards white males. During the affirmative action era in California, it was far from "absurd" that race played a significant role in admissions. Instead, the Board of Regents was trying to create campuses which represented the diversity of California while recognizing the educational disadvantages inherent in a poor socio-economic background...
...virtuoso of quotable quotes and absurd silliness, Ellis lives cocktail party chitchat. He's a master of persuasion and listeners become believers even though he says nothing. His language is littered with "you knows"--a question as rhetorical and self-serving as the motive behind many of his recent public appearances. In conversation, Ellis incessantly sells himself, his book and his "friends...
Council Vice President Kamil E. Redmond '00said it is "absurd that Harvard draws ondonors...to fund a project which has no immediatebenefit for students...
...staff calls the recent drop in minority admissions an indication that non-affirmative action policies are "unfair." Quite the contrary. The radical drop instead reveals the absurd degree to which race had previously been a factor in admissions and thereby the extent to which non-minority applicants had been unjustly discriminated against...
...This Sunday is Valentine's Day, an occasion that used to be shrouded in a seemingly absurd sincerity. Now, of course, it has been devalued and commodified to the same extent as the relationships we cycle through. This year, however, perhaps those here at Harvard lucky enough to have someone in their life should take the opportunity to consciously reject the modern perspective and its faith in the circumstantial contingency of life-long partnership...