Word: cheapens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extent to which this University allows its members to engage in activities which ultimately cheapen the Harvard mane never ceases to amaze me. The disproportionate attention that the school lavishes on the sodomizers among members of its community is one such example...
...groups at Harvard want to protect the gains of affirmative action from the dismantling impulses of their conservative opponents. But their good intentions work against themselves. If we can agree that affirmative action policies are a necessary remedy to the historical injustices suffered by Blacks in this country, we cheapen that redress when we try to disguise the fact that affirmative action is at work. Affirmative action does not erase past injustices once it admits disadvantaged Black students into Harvard; rather, it allows those inequities to enter the campus. The result is that some Blacks and Latinos admitted into Harvard...
...both sides before the bargaining even begins, only a true optimist (like a long-suffering Cubs or Indians fan) would plan on attending many games during the imperiled 1994 season. But what lies ahead for 1995 is even more ominous for baseball traditionalists: the owners seem determined to cheapen postseason play by doubling the number of play-off teams...
...Howe Cup is not considered a national championship event because "it would cheapen the regular dual meet season," according to Cunningham...
...solution to the "voter schizophrenia" problem is to equip all voting booths with two levers--Republican and Democrat--that would register votes for all the candidates of the respective parties. Although President Bush showed us that desperate measures are always in order in an election year, such action might cheapen the electoral process...