Word: counterfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many explain the disparity in representation of Christmas and Hannukah decorations by pointing out that Christmas is a major holiday with significant religious meaning, while Hannukah is a relatively unimportant festival enlarged specifically to provide a counter-Christmas for American Jewish children...
...Blacks and Hispanics and Native Americans receiving Ph.Ds, there is not going to be a significant increase in the number of faculty members who come from [these groups]. Strong efforts have to be made to increase Ph.D. recipients. The [decision] by the Department of Education seems to run counter to that effort...
...Strong efforts have to be made to increase Ph.D. recipients," Steiner said. "The [decision] by the Department of Education seems to run counter to that effort...
...members of AALARM obviously are not satisfied. And, as the staff editorial points out, listening to AALARM spout lunch-counter rhetoric is "the epitome of hypocrisy...
...counter criticisms that Harvard would, as one professor said, turn "into a breeding ground for well-to-do foreign yuppies," Nye quotes studies which demonstrate the social and economic diversity of Harvard's current international student body...