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...reason is that the dean and the faculty as a whole approached it using the largely meaningless traditional criteria of excellence," Kennedy says, adding that the school's heavy emphasis on grades. Law Review and clerkships discriminates against minorities...
Allain thinks that Sacks "understands the problem of women and minority faculty members, but he has not always been able to modify his viewpoint toward selection criteria...
...cuts exempt some of the programs for which spending is growing most rapidly. Here the critics-and they include a number of conservative Republicans -have a solid point. Reagan has indeed exempted many major "entitlement" programs, those to which people are automatically "entitled" if they fit certain criteria. These include Social Security pensions, numerous veterans' benefits and Medicare. Such programs are "indexed" to inflation: the faster the Consumer Price Index rises, the more benefits increase-even though the CPI is not a totally accurate measure of the cost of living. The CPI is, for instance, heavily weighted to reflect...
...very point of affirmative action is to ensure that women and members of minority groups will have equal opportunity to be considered for tenured appointments on the basis of stringent academic criteria. It is not because there have not been qualified women that so few women have been appointed in the past; rather, it has been the exclusion of women from consideration by the imposition of irrelevant criteria...
...resolution asks Mobil to "develop and adopt criteria for investments in foreign countries" where secrecy laws prevent the company from knowing the use of the goods and services it provides. It also requests that Mobil publish the accepted criteria that Mobil publish the accepted criteria and the corporation's compliance with them...