Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most prestigious, competitive offerings are alumnae- and faculty-driven. Externships pair students with alums over spring break, while mentorships allow undergraduates to discuss career choices and build relationships with Boston-area graduates...
...Research partnerships allow faculty members and affiliates of Radcliffe's institutes to hire undergraduates as research assistants. In addition, Radcliffe officials tout their newly expanded creative writing program...
...Radcliffe's nondiscrimination statement--which notes that Radcliffe makes personnel decisions "on the basis of an individual's qualifications to share in the College's educational objectives and contribute to its institutional needs"--mentions neither sex nor gender explicitly. The statement seems to allow Radcliffe to steer politely away from including men in all its programs--a policy that has remained unchanged since its founding...
...Great Hunger (1845-1849), the worst in a series of famines that ravaged Ireland, was a period of great trial for a people already deeply affected by 800 years of English occupation and tyranny. Most had been reduced to lives of subsistence farming. English laws and landlords did not allow the trade of traditional Irish goods and grazed their own cattle upon large chunks of Irish land that they now "owned." Catholics were discriminated against, tenants were evicted, and the Irish language was forcibly superceded by English...
...issues. There are more than 200,000 of them on the Net with some 15 million subscribers discussing everything from global warming to nose hair. Setting up a public mailing list used to be a hassle unless you had access to industrial-strength mailing programs used at universities that allow folks to do things such as automatically subscribe to and unsubscribe from lists. Since e-mail has grown so popular, though, a number of companies are helping people set up and manage mailing lists, for a fee of about $10 a month. Lsoft.com and Sparklist.com are examples of fee-based...