Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Republicans have been able to hold this untenable alliance together by paying lip-service to the social agenda of the Right without taking any serious action on it. MBA Republicans don't care for the fundamentalist Right, but they still see no reason to fear them...
...recognition must be made of their different needs, or they cannot be equal. Until Harvard recognizes this, Radcliffe must maintain an active presence on campus to ensure the equal education which it has promised women. The next Radcliffe president must recognize this imperative not only in rhetoric but in action as well...
Tickets for quarterfinal action in the NCAA Division I Hockey Tournament will go on sale Thursday at 9 a.m. at the Harvard Athletic Ticket Office in the basement of Harvard Hall...
...manager at the Xerox branch office in Syracuse, N.Y., Chester Howell supervises a staff of about 20, mainly repair technicians and clerical workers. All but two are white. Howell is black. A former copier-machine repairman who rose through an affirmative-action promotion plan, he ran into some resistance when he first assumed his higher job. There were fierce arguments with one of his white assistant managers. "He questioned every decision I made," says Howell. "He wanted to double-check everything...
Considering that it represents a reversal of centuries of black subordination, the rise of the black manager has been accomplished with remarkably little upheaval. But not without some strain. African Americans who have risen through affirmative-action plans can face resentment from white underlings. Some white subordinates fret over whether black bosses will favor other blacks. And the stories are common among black managers of white employees who ceaselessly buck their authority or who go over their heads to complain to higher-placed whites...