Word: accountant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lawrence is a raw, ill-favored roost of newly arrived Free Soil settlers, jostled by drunken proslave irregulars from Missouri and protected, mostly with words, by gassy politicians. John Brown and his terrible sons, the focus of Banks' harsh panorama, are just out of sight in Smiley's account, raiding and murdering...
Thernstrom responded to Bobo's reference to the income gap between blacks and whites by noting that income studies do not take into account an important variable...
...involving carefully designed audits (i.e., matched pairs of job applicants), as well as systematic surveys and in-depth interviews of low-skill employers speak loudly on the subject of race: direct racial bias against African-Americans exists today. Continued race bias in the labor market and residential segregation help account for why a far larger fraction of the black poor as compared to the white poor, have incomes at 50 percent or less of the official poverty line...
...instance, as you reported last fall, Dartmouth decided this year to give all future graduates e-mail accounts. This will draw alumni into the Dartmouth community and help friends stay in touch. Harvard's e-mail forwarding system is wimpy. It depends on who happens to live in an e-mail friendly environment and on who happens to register his or her e-mail address with Harvard every time he or she switches to a new one and who you happen to know has registered. An e-mail account system would be simpler, surer, and more befitting of Harvard...
...support closer ties for the classes of '98 and beyond? Surely it is not a question of money. As Harvard's fundraisers know, strengthening a sense of connection to Harvard is essential to raising lots of money. An e-mail account system would, in the long term, rake in more moolah than syncophantic pleas like the one Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles just sent to seniors...