Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ACSR--originally a 15 member panel of students, faculty and alumni but later reduced to 12--was similar to committees established at other universities to examine ethical questions of shareholder responsibility. The ACSR has no actual power, it can only consider the dozens of resolutions facing the university each year and make recommendations to the CCSR which has total responsibility for casting Harvard's proxy votes...
Placement officers at some of the 500 schools across the nation, where Southwestern representatives recruit, generally approve of the opportunities the company offers certain students. However, most of the college officials simultaneously object to the actual recruitment practices carried out on their campuses. Particular criticism centers on recruiters use of misleading advertisements and vague sales pitches to attract students...
...these precepts have proved an inadequate guide to dealing with the complexities of the real world, in which bellicose anti-Soviet rhetoric sometimes frightens U.S. allies more than it does the leaders in the Kremlin, and in which friends (actual and potential) insist on pursuing their own explosive quarrels rather than subordinating them to any common anti-Soviet cause. The President, who came to office lacking experience in foreign affairs, has given such matters only intermittent personal attention. Haig, beset with bureaucratic battles, has tended to focus his formidable energy on one foreign problem at a time. In the words...
...thoroughly antiromantic. Yet it is not cold 18th century rationalistic either. The computer simply provides a way of drawing a line between the knowable and the unknowable, between the moon and the moon in man, and it is on that line where people may be able to see their actual size...
...Board of Education, which outlawed separate-but-equal schools. But he believes the battle is far from won. In a recent article, he wrote: "For black Americans, racial equality is a tradition without a past. Perhaps one day America will be colorblind. It takes an extraordinary ignorance of actual life in America today to believe that day has come...