Word: admitedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most emotional issue in thiscomplicated argument was that of admissions. WouldHarvard have to decrease its number of maleundergraduates in order to admit more women into acoeducational college...
...Dean of Admission, Jewett implemented a need-blind admissions policy. In the 1960s and '70s, when states began to pour money into low-interest loans and grants, Jewett helped make Harvard one of the first colleges to admit applicants completely without regard to financial need. Even in today's environment, when more and more universities are cutting back on educational funding, Harvard remains firmly committed to need-blind admissions...
Revealing the paradoxes inherent in promoting wartime weapons development, Hershberg writes that Conant told Harvard students in 1943: "Let us freely admit that the battlefield is no place to question the doctrine that the end justifies the means, but let us insist...with all our power, that this same doctrine must be republicated...in times of peace...
Dole's aides admit that June will bring a distracting boomlet in stories and speculation about Newt Gingrich's own plans in 1996. As Ralph Reed, executive director of the Christian Coalition, says, "Newt is not entirely satisfied that the presidential race fully reflects the revitalization [of the party] that he has brought." Gingrich is scheduled to visit 25 cities around the U.S. this summer to promote his new book, To Renew America, whose publisher, HarperCollins, is printing 500,000 copies on the first run. Dole aides say they aren't worried about Gingrich; the House Speaker has assured them...
President Clinton should be commended for his ethical and principled decision to admit the Cuban refugees at Guantanamo to the U.S. [CUBA, May 15]. He has taken some flak from that small minority of ultra-conservative Cuban Americans who would have been happy to let their Cuban brothers and sisters rot at Guantanamo, but instead of caving in to their pressure, Clinton took the moral high ground. Cuban Americans will think highly of him for allowing the rrunification of Cuban families. RAYMUNDO DEL TORO, PRESIDENT Cuban American Commmittee for Peace Linden, New Jersey