Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pollution hysteria" generated by such studies as The Limits to Growth, he adds sternly, is another example of the odd doom consciousness that has persisted in industrial countries since Thomas Malthus, an early 19th century English clergyman who warned that population would soon outstrip available food supplies. Beckerman does admit to a certain pessimism about the next ten years. He fears unnecessarily slow growth, and blames politicians who deal with inflation by strangling economic expansion. The solution is not to stop growth, he says, but to use and direct it better...
Even before arriving at Harvard, Beth had been warned about the school's imbalanced sex ratio. She had purposefully chosen a coed school but was still a little wary of the strains the ratio placed on both the men and the women here. But she also had to admit the thought of all those excess men sounded awfully nice after four years in a small, rural high school. And Jeff's conversation made her even more optimistic. Sure the system was rotten but she felt pretty confident she-d be able to enjoy herself here...
...letter was fortunate for a few days, at least, to believe he had gotten into Harvard when he was sent a letter of admittance. But admissions officials quickly notified the boy that it was all a mistake. They eventually convinced the parents not to take threatened legal action to admit their son because, Jewett says, it would have been an academic disaster if their son had been enrolled...
Most likely, we are outraged by apartheid and by Harvard's investment policies which effectively support it, but we simply feel impotent in the face of Harvard, the immovable institution. Harvard is certainly not Hampshire College, where the school's administrators seem to admit they are accountable to the students at the college. Perhaps Harvard Corporation members do believe the age, wealth and prestige of the University do give it the right, or at least the raw power, to completely ignore the moral indignation of the students who, after all, are the essential reasons for the University's existence. Quite...
Brown became president of the California Institute of Technology in 1969. He trimmed Caltech's nonacademic staff by 10%, persuaded its trustees to admit women students and strengthened its medical-science and biology programs. He also kept a hand in military and diplomatic matters as a member of the U.S. SALT negotiating team and, with Jimmy Carter, of the Trilateral Commission, an international group of private citizens interested in world affairs...