Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics have charged that under Harvard admissions policies, Asian-Americans must be academically better qualified to gain admission, and that the University has employed conscious or unconscious bias in limiting the number of Asian-American undergraduates...
More than poetry, Doctorow's prose has rhythm--it reads like a song. The author is obviously conscious of the effect. While he runs the risk of sating the reader with style, Doctorow escapes the flowery...
...last week, the complaint had grown into a class-action suit representing some 10,000 workers, mostly clerical and managerial, who will reap millions of dollars in pay adjustments. The accusation: that GM's system for judging worker performance discriminated against blacks. "Evaluators were allowed to indulge their biases, conscious or unconscious," said Dennis James, lawyer for the plaintiffs...
Most Cambridge development has occurred along what Sullivan calls "the spine of the, city"--the transit lines along Mass. Ave. The concentration of hotels and high-rises in areas like Harvard and Kendall Squares, he says, is the result of a conscious effort to keep projects out of residential areas...
Having shown the wrong that was committed (the destruction of a classless culture in America), and the causes (a hierarchical, money-conscious elite that sought to divide itself from the riff-raff), Levine is free to assess the damages...