Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what he thinks nor thinks what he says. The kinda guy who gives you the once-over when he shakes you hand--and what a handshake it is--while all the time sizin' you up, as if you was the opposition or somethin'. Nah, he'd never admit it, but he's got it made this year...
...most hotly debated issue at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences last year was the question of minority recruitment and admissions. Ever since affirmative action became a widely acknowledged issue, the GSAS has been trying to design policies to recruit, admit and keep minority Ph.D. candidates...
...prognosis is guarded, as Keenan would be the first to admit. "What we must do here at Harvard GSAS is try to keep a certain amount of quality and self-respect at a time when all hell will be breaking loose on the charts," Keenan says...
...grossly overtaxed. Boston has no other local taxes, and homeowners pay the highest tax rate in the country-$252.90 per $1,000 of assessed valuation. Though Boston assesses property at one-third its true market value, the effective rate is a whopping 8½%, a level even city officials admit is virtually confiscatory...
...deep flashback for upperclassmen scouting out the territory, and the memories are fresher than one would like to admit...