Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been justified with precisely the same rationalization. President Bok's resurrection of this thesis in light of Harvard's history is yet another example of his desire to keep the fox in charge of the chicken coop as regards the rights of women and minorities. Bok's bankrupt concept of self-policing is at the heart of his long-run strategy for dealing with affirmative action; in the short run, he seems to hope that simple evasion will suffice...
...national origin. As the phrase implies, affirmative action requires the employer to make additional efforts to recruit, employ and promote qualified members of groups formerly excluded, even if that exclusion cannot be traced to particular discriminatory actions on the part of the employer. The premise of the affirmative action concept of the executive order is that unless positive action is undertaken to overcome the effects of systematic institutional forms of exclusion and discrimination, a benign neutrality in employment practices will tend to perpetuate the status quo ante idenfinitely...
...administration majority which is built into the procedure, it is not surprising that this arrangement is viewed as unsatisfactory by most employees who know of its existence. The entire grievance procedure is devoid of safeguards for the employee and is ultimately a travesty on the concept of justice. It is not commonly used precisely because of these characteristics and cannot be described as having either "sound standards" or "due process...
REAGAN TWISTS and turns like a rattlesnake. When his invest-Social-Security-Trust-funds-in-the-stock-market concept didn't go over too well, he said he had only cited an expert's opinion. At a press conference on television two weeks ago Reagan was asked a specific question about a particular item on his list of $90 billion cuts in the federal budget. Again he said that these were expert economists who drew up this list and he had consulted with them and everything, but, uh, he wasn't quite aware of that particular item because, uh, these...
...just learned about negative numbers. His experience is shared by elementary school children who-three times a week in Boston and four in Los Angeles-watch a new show, Infinity Factory, on their TV sets. Each half-hour program has a specific goal: to teach youngsters a mathematical concept, holding their attention with lively gimmicks that are reminiscent of those on Laugh-In and Sesame Street...