Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lecture halls overflowed yesterday as many students failed even to gain access to the classrooms of several popular courses...
...guess is that the genetic bias is intense enough to cause a substantial division of labor even in the most free and egalitarian of future societies. Thus, even with identical education and equal access to all professions, men are likely to play a disproportionate role in political life, business and science. (New York Times, 10/12/75...
...compensation to build the big Buddha image at the temple. Officials seem more polite. This village is ready to be progovernment." Heavily guarded government teams are also hacking out roads through the forested valleys of the northeast to bring goods from remote villages to market-and allow troops easy access for anti-guerrilla raids. In one of the heaviest such engagements, a Thai-Malaysian force of 4,000 troops-the first cooperative effort of this kind-is waging a joint campaign backed by heavy air and artillery strikes against the guerrillas' mountain strongholds in the south...
...Free Access. Carter chose Hamilton Jordan, 32, his shrewd and affable campaign manager, to be his chief political adviser. Jordan has been a loyalist since 1966, when Carter was running his losing race for the Georgia governorship. Another key role will be played by Press Secretary Jody Powell, 33, who began working for Carter as his chauffeur in his 1970 gubernatorial contest...
Carter's problems, if any, may be less with his people than the way he proposes to use them. Instead of naming a chief of staff and creating a well-defined pecking order, Carter plans to give his top half-dozen assistants free access to the Oval Office. If that proves to be too inefficient, the betting is that Jordan or Lipshutz will emerge as the head man. In his favor, Lipshutz has his years, his avuncular manner and his legal savvy. He will preside over the morning staff meetings...