Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...COLLEGE'S REFUSAL to admit two Chinese women to a freshman minority orientatio banquet earlier this year irritated a sensitive nerve in relations between the University and Asian-American students in the Harvard community. The issue, which appears at the moment to be stalemated, brought to the forefront a disparity in the definitions of "minorities" utilized by the federal Department of Health, Education and welfare and by the University: the former includes Asian-Americans, the latter does not. But while the quarrel has to date centered primarily on this rather technical issue, the questions raised go far deeper, extending...
...attempt at playing Philosophers' Camp soon bogged down in an absured debate on symmetry. We cheered each other with thoughts of rainbows stretching over the mountains, but as the afternoon wore on and the Ranger stopped by with news of endless rain we wavered and soon had to admit that we weren't going to wait anymore. It felt good to be moving again as we sloshed through the leaves which cascaded down around us in the strong wind. We reached the car by dark...
QUESTION NO. 1--This one's really easy, for how can anyone who's ever dreamed of pitching a perfect game not vote in favor of ERA? As any sane baseball person will admit, the ERA is the only true indicator of a pitcher's performance. It's those 2-1 games (not those 9-5 thrillers) out of which Cy Young winners are made...
...inflation. But after the economic summits that he convened in the autumn of 1974, he ignored all the warnings of recession and proposed an unwisely tight fiscal policy, with income tax surcharges for individuals and companies. By December the economy had plunged, and in January 1975 Ford had to admit his error by proposing a tax cut of $16 billion. In fact, that was too modest. Congress increased it to more than $22 billion...
Houn said he will only agree to such a meeting "when they admit that there is a grievance," and added that he may seek a hearing before the 20-member HSA board of trustees, the final tier in the company's internal grievance mechanism...