Word: counteractions
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...white upper class has "kept poor white and poor Blacks at loggerheads" to oppose affirmative action and other programs that counteract racial discrimination...
University officials cannot be held responsible for the occurrence of racist incidents; they are undoubtedly as horrified as anyone. But they can and should do more to counteract the damaging fears such incidents provoke. If the University were more enthusiastic, more cooperative, and more speedy in its development of a Third World Center; if President Bok and other leaders denounced the Klitgaard report, which insensitively cast doubt on Black students' academic abilities; if College administrators moved faster to implement the recommendations of last year's race relations report; and if Harvard's leaders made it clear that student pressure...
...much a tribute to the tactical skill of New Right organizers who have mobilized the support of fundamentalists and other right-leaning, formerly apolitical groups through the use of national computer address banks. The answer for 1984 is simple: the left must organize itself to counteract this new force, using similar computerized-mailing tactics if necessary...
...impact on Harvard students shouldn't be too great. I think we have the ability to counteract the negative impact on those families through institutional funds," Lyman said. But she added, "We are terribly lucky to be in a situation to distribute such funds. I would guess that 90 per cent of other colleges don't have...
Ellsworth stressed that U.S. reluctance to intervene was causing losses in the ongoing competition with the Soviets. Criticizing the current policy for its regional concerns, he said "the president has to be prepared to play power politics" and to counteract the Soviet "aura of power that intimidates our allies...