Word: broads
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Harvard has long resisted efforts by some faculty members to establish a undergraduate concentration or a faculty appointment to study women's issues. Opponents have argued that such a field is too broad and is inseparable from history, literature and other academic areas...
...high registry hall, only a few dozen needed replacing. In addition to restoring the 20-ft. by 20-ft. dormitory spaces (three families to a room), one wing of the main building will include new exhibition space and two theaters designed by the firm Beyer Blinder Belle. A broad entrance ramp covered by a vast canopy, original elements of the main building, will be rebuilt, but in unmistakably modern materials and forms. "We are trying to emulate the original designs but not trying to fool people in a Disney World sense," says Brooklyn-born Architect Michael Adlerstein, the enthusiastic Park...
...what kind of bill will it be? The Senate and House measures have the same broad outline: each would lower and simplify income tax rates and offset the revenue loss by killing hundreds of exceptions and deductions. Yet they differ in dozens of all-important details. One example: the House bill preserves but the Senate measure ends for most people the deductibility of annual contributions to Individual Retirement Accounts. Should the Senate version prevail in conference, that one provision would cost taxpayers $25.5 billion over the next five years...
...administration has been in the forefront of the opponents of broad racial preferences, with President Reagan advocating a "colorblind society." The administration has said quotas should be banned because they injure the innocent, usually white males...
...White and the late Potter Stewart. The Burger era may be remembered as one in which the centrists played the crucial role as swing votes in a court that was always swaying. But durable voting blocs were hard to forge among Justices who faced the divisive task of implementing broad principles that the Warren Court had merely sketched out: first the agreeable axioms of equality, then the vexing arithmetic of affirmative action. So in the landmark Bakke case, five Justices voted to invalidate a racial quota at a California medical school but five (Powell was in both camps) also approved...