Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also clear that no matter how perfect the admissions process is, unconscious bias and subjective opinions of individuals in the Admissions Office will still play a part. Improvements can always be made. But if the Admissions Office deliberately employed unfair practices in selecting applicants, we believe that we would be aware of them through our close communication with the people within the system. We can assure the Harvard community that if there were discriminatory practices against Asian American applicants in the Admissions Office, we certainly would be one of the first to investigate and speak...
...strike against International Paper (IP) last year, they didn't only picket the corporate headquarters of IP; they also picketed the headquarters of Coca-Cola and Bank of Boston, because both companies had a corporate board member who also sat on the board of IP. Making such corporate incest clear to the public demonstrates the structural problem of American capitalism: that a handful of isolated individuals are controlling the economic destiny of millions...
...when 1986 statistics showed a slight jump in drunk driving fatalities after some years of decline, it became clear that another media campaign was needed, DeJong says. The Center for Health Communication, which specializes in using the media to combat personal health problems, decided to take up the issue...
Newspaper accounts made it clear that despite the outpouring of international and, Armenians were suffering from lack of shelter and medical care...
...fact, that is far from clear. But that is why diplomats were invented: to probe ambiguities, clarify positions, encourage progress. When John Kennedy was confronted with contradictory messages from Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban missile crisis, he decided to cable his acceptance of the more conciliatory of the two and ignore the other. Faced with differing interpretations and translations of what was decided in Algiers, the U.S. could seize upon the more positive interpretations as the basis for preliminary talks with the P.L.O. The U.S. goal in those discussions: to nudge the P.L.O. into agreeing that it has indeed adopted...