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...proposals were debated at length in the Faculty Council, and this week, Dean Rosovsky announced that the school will adopt a new program, along the general lines of the students' proposals...
...review, stipulated when the Faculty voted to adopt a sex-blind admissions policy in 1975, is generally favorable, and the committee reports it found no instances of discrimination against any applicants in the admission process...
...Army leaked the "results" of tests on the two tanks, which implied that the Leopard was inferior to the XM-1. Infuriated, the Germans let it be known that if Washington reneged on the tank agreement, Bonn would refuse to go along with the U.S. plan to have NATO adopt AWACS, an American-made flying early-warning system, for which West Germany was to put up a quarter of the $2.6 billion cost...
...civilian legal system should adopt the military procedure of a complete pretrial investigation because many of the innocent are weeded out before litigation, Bailey said...
Harvard, the bastion of the Eastern establishment, has always been slow to adopt innovations, and Radcliffe has consistently been treated as something of an afterthought. Radcliffe's founders accepted Harvard's control in return for its high academic quality; but Baker repeatedly quotes past and present Harvard administrators speaking out against higher education for women; she shows again and again that Harvard has been unwilling to change its traditional structure to help women find a place here. The merger-nonmerger position, Baker argues, allows Radcliffe a superficial independence. Radcliffe controls the Radcliffe Institute funds, but effectively washes away responsibilities...