Word: compelled
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Harvard administrators and Faculty certainly need no convincing that the purpose of the university is nothing like that of a department store; Mr. Resnick's editorial will indeed draw "sarcastic chuckles" from them, and rightly so. But perhaps it will compel those who make policy at Harvard to check that their practice is in line with their ideals, and to realize with whom they agree when...
Harvard administrators and Faculty certainly need no convincing that the purpose of the university is nothing like that of a department store; Mr. Resnick's editorial will indeed draw "sarcastic chuckles" from them, and rightly so. But perhaps it will compel those who make policy at Harvard to check that their practice is in line with their ideals, and to realize with whom they agree when...
...have not thought it possible to compel men of different races to reside together," Lowell wrote in defense of a similarly reasoned proposal to prevent black students from living in Harvard Yard, also later overturned...
...until scientists agree on their safety. In India, Monsanto is running into a p.r. buzz saw in its efforts to introduce a Bt cotton called Bollgard--even as it wrestles with continuing protests over its stalled plans to include in its new crops so-called terminator technology that would compel farmers to buy fresh seed for each planting...
...generally accepted as it ought to be. His friend, the late critic Harold Rosenberg, claimed that "in linking art to the modern consciousness, no artist is more relevant than Steinberg. That he remains an art-world outsider is a problem that critical thinking in art must compel itself to confront." That problem is shrinking, but it still remains...