Word: circumventions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hall's personnel problems extend beyond simply firing people. His hiring policies too have come under fire, especially from those who administer Harvard's affirmative action plan. He admits to "inadvertently" making a serious mistake in ignoring affirmative action requirements when he hired Randall Blank, a young Business School graduate...
Hall may have been sincerely surprised at the hostility his project engendered. He would certainly be within his rights to think of himself as an island of rationality in a sea of unthinking emotion, and to expect an enlightened community to look beyond the gut connotations of identimats to their...
Ever since the Supreme Court declared official prayers in public schools unconstitutional in 1962, some local governments have contrived to circumvent the decision; often they simply defied the law- at least until they were challenged.
The story that unfolds is that middle-class women by and large have moved outside their homes to concentrate on the typically feminine activities of health, education and welfare--and within those fields, to pay particular attention to other women and to children. It was through the groups they formed...
The implications of this ruling are enormous. Doctors will probably continue to perform early abortions when there is no question about a fetus' inability to survive outside the womb. But, fearful of sharing Edelin's fate, they may be less likely to take a chance on late-term...