Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argued over whether tariffs on farm commodities should be handled by an agricultural subcommittee or by a committee with broader authority. U.S. policymakers want to consider them together; in this manner, Americans and Canadians could agree to let in more European industrial exports in exchange for greater freedom of access to the European market for farm goods. For precisely the same reason, Europeans are lobbying against such linked bargaining. Their argument: recent dock blockades, riots and demonstrations by European farmers are ominous signs of a potential social upheaval unless special measures are taken to protect Europe's ancient...
...equal access is a move away from quotas and "an artificially constructed student body," why has Harvard essentially promised alumni and concerned men in its community that there will be little or no change in the present male admissions quota...
...equal access is indeed the method by which Harvard and Radcliffe intend to increase the number of women undergraduates, why do even Radcliffe administrators concede that there will be little or no change in the number of women admitted over the next few years...
Beneath all the rhetoric about equal access, one fact stands out: there will be no noticeable improvement in the present 2.3 to 1 male-female ratio for at least three more years...
...College, but it doggedly resists doing so. Radcliffe, which should want to add to its numbers, does not have the power to do so. Until Harvard lives up to its responsibility to educate students regardless of sex and admit them without a pre-conceived ratio in mind, equal access is just another euphemism for inequality...