Word: contenders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee, in a letter to President Bok, charged the University with misleading job applicants by describing as "secretarial" a post they contend encompasses all but the highest-level policy decisions concerning minority recruitment and admissions. Peter S. McKinney, acting dean of the GSAS and the individual immediately responsible for the hiring, is currently formulating a reply to the charges, while Phyllis Keller, equal opportunity officer for the Faculty, is undertaking an investigation of the allegations. If the charges turn out to be true, the school's action represents the ultimate act of bad faith, a deplorable violation of both...
...students contend that Popko has actually relieved Hillgarth of all but her highest level responsibilities coordinating minority recruitment and admissions...
...were sidetracked that night. We never made it to all those other places that probably have their heads screwed on so much better. But this place was just too amazing. And there were those wharves to contend with, just to get back to South Station. I mean, we mighta got jobbed. Boogie boogie boogie boogie...
...helicopter known as UTTAS (Utility Tactical Transport Aircraft System). In December the Army announced the winner: Sikorsky of Stratford, Conn., which stands to reap perhaps $4 billion in sales over the next ten years. The loser, Boeing Vertol in Ridley Township, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia, must now contend with doubts about its survival as a primary aircraft maker. To gauge the impact of the biggest helicopter award in 20 years, TIME Correspondent Eileen Shields visited both plants. Her report...
...Harvard's Board of Overseers, were writing that education destroyed women's femininity physically as well as socially. Educated women, he wrote, "graduated from school or college excellent scholars, but with undeveloped ovaries. Later they married, and were sterile." The founders of the women's colleges had to contend with the widespread belief that women were too weak for education. Ultimately, their only defense in the hostile climate seemed to be to make it clear that these promoters of women's education were not attacking the very foundations of their society. They were forced to insure that their graduates were...