Word: constantly
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This does not mean, of course, that the total number of Americans will become a constant, like the number of degrees in a triangle. Instead, the future U.S. population is likely either to fluctuate around a base point as it seeks equilibrium, like tides around a mean high-water mark, or continue to increase, but at rates even more modest than today...
Some fear that an end to population growth will produce social and economic stagnation, holding that major American institutions-including Government and the free economy-require constant expansion. But most agree that the U.S. would be better off if its rate of expansion could be considerably slowed...
...federal government's affirmative action program has gone through a constant series of modifications for more than 30 years, but its bearing on universities became clear less than two years ago. The first step toward making job discrimination illegal came in 1941, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 issued an executive order that required a clause in all government contracts prohibiting discrimination in hiring. Later presidents issued more executive orders on the same subject; one authorized by President John F. Kennedy '40 coined the phrase "affirmative action," meaning that government contractors were not only prohibited from discriminating...
Meanwhile, HEW conducts a constant monitoring of the program, evaluating its progress largely by comparing the numbers of women and minorities actually hired with the numbers predicted in the plan. These numbers are a tricky business because they remind many people in universities of quotas, which make academics recoil in horror...
...Cambridge group is newer than the Medical Area one; it started only last spring, when an aggressive, persuasive secretary in the Physics Department named Gertraude Schroder started to talk to other secretaries about organizing. Schroder has been in fairly constant touch with the Medical Area group since she started to think about unionization, receiving advice and help along the way--although the two groups do not plan to join forces at present because the Medical Area committee is so much farther along...