Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family secrets were members of the alienated fourth generation of the dynasty, the great-grandchildren of the first John D. Rockefeller, the first members of the family who were not accustomed to being completely in control of the people around them. These Rockefeller Cousins apparently gave Collier and Horowitz access to parts of the vast family archives without trying, as their parents and grandparents had, to put the writers on the family payroll or to interfere substantially in their work...
...some colleges, ultimate frisbee is a much more high-powered affair. At Hampshire College, the four-year old team, recognized as one of the best in the country, has access to the college's airedome nightly for year-round indoor practices...
Were it not for the new equal access policy and the resulting 1.9:1 sex ratio, the large crop of Chicanos admitted to next year's class would have been the success story of the class of 1980. Byerly Hall admitted 32 Chicanos to next year's freshman class, nearly double the 18 accepted last year, and the largest number of Mexican-Americans ever admitted. These totals are the product of an intense recruitment effort that was unique in many ways, most notably the role undergraduates played...
...selection of the Class of 1980--the first picked by a joint Harvard-Radcliffe admissions staff with a new "equal-access" admissions policy--has been a somewhat controversial process. Alumni groups have been firmly opposed to any decrease in the number of undergraduate men here...
Fitzsimmons said one alumnus who was originally "adamant" in opposition to equal-access admissions later wrote that he was "seduced, charmed and turned around" in his thinking after an interview with a female applicant...