Word: admited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nearly three-quarters of all Princeton juniors and seniors eat their meals at the eating clubs, and 10 of the 12 clubs already admit women. Princeton has not severed ties with the clubs and the organizations have continued to receive benefits such as snowplowing and telephone services from the school...
...clubs will also have to consider theimplications of a recent Supreme Court decisionwhich upheld a California ruling that the RotaryClubs must admit women because the clubs qualifiedas public accommodations under a stateanti-discrimination law, Bloom said. The SupremeCourt found that the ruling did not violate RotaryClub members' freedom of association...
...understand their moral accountability for their actions, perhaps an air of redemption would ensue. But the new American gospel is damage control, using the arts of public relations to deflect blame. "Mistakes were made," was President Reagan's explanation for the Iran- contra affair. His absolute refusal to admit even the slightest responsibility for the ethical chaos around him is telling...
...says, "I am very upset by the ethical behavior that will make people believe that lying by our Government is natural." Confessing errors has never, of course, been part of the Reagan magic. For six years, as America's debt soared past $2 trillion, the President refused to admit that George Bush was right when he said during the 1980 primaries that trying to balance the budget by cutting taxes was "voodoo economics...
...hate to admit it, but Gorbachev is giving the arms-control talks fresh and helpful impulses. He is putting forth concessions that no other Soviet leader has ever made. If the U.S. does not respond soon, a historical chance will be missed. We have no option: we have to accept Gorbachev's offers...