Word: combated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff's endorsement of an affirmative action policy is their most misguided step. They seem willing to sacrifice the quality of this University in order to combat a prejudice that does not exist. A candidate's merit should be Harvard's only criterion for hiring. Once the University goes beyond merit in hiring professors, they do a disservice to every student who expects the highest caliber of education available. We have faith that there is an abundance of exceptional female academics who, based on this criteria alone, will have no trouble securing places at this institution...
...America is the last place the U.S. should peddle its arms. People gape with horror when the Russians market high-tech warplanes to nations in troubled regions, yet few protest when America sells equally deadly technology. I hope the Defense Department will gape with the same horror if, in combat with an unstable Latin American nation, American planes encounter aircraft that are equally deadly (and American made). BRETT MACKELLAR Gaylord, Michigan
...retirement, all funds in faculty members' pensions are released to them and may be invested at their discretion--outside of the University's control. Professors must choose their own plans, usually combinations of stocks, bonds or annuities, to combat inflation or dips in the stock market...
Gelfond and Sharon L. Wing '97 began the Women in Philosophy group last September precisely to combat this problem...
With budget cuts and an ever-expanding international role on the horizon, the military's job will only get tougher in the years to come. For our part, the least we can do is combat the misconceptions about the military that permeate our society and this campus. As one high ranking officer put it, "you don't have to love us, just respect what...