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...date centered primarily on this rather technical issue, the questions raised go far deeper, extending to the psychology of non-white students at Harvard, the underlying philosophy of admissions department recruitment programs and the need for increased orientation programs for all students, not simply those fitting narrowly-defined criteria...
While questions are still being raised regarding the criteria used for enrollment in my Currier House course on Biology and Women's Issues, I should like to explain why I believe that it may be legitimate in some cases to select as participants in a course women, or blacks, or some other group which historically has not been represented in the elaboration of the traditional, accepted view that constitutes our perception of "reality" in a particular field...
Foster has produced a disaster magnitude scale that factors in social disruption, physical damage and injuries, as well as deaths. By his criteria, China's earthquake last August rates a 9.0 score, making it the sixth worst disaster he has plotted. Under the Foster Formula, which does not distinguish between disasters wrought by man and those wrought by nature, the top five are World War II (11.1), the Black Death (10.9), World War I (10.5), Stalin's Great Purge of 1936-38 (10.2) and the 1923 earthquake that devastated Tokyo (9.1). Some rankings will come as a surprise...
...dollars in commercial and municipal bonds. The services' analysts investigate all financial aspects of firms or municipalities that issue bonds. The information is then studied by committees of three or four experts, who finally assign the bond's rating. Often the decisions are unanimous, but exactly what criteria are used in making these judgments is sometimes unclear. As a result, some businessmen and politicians, uneasy about how rating decisions are reached, have been calling for greater Government supervision of the rating services...
...threat, Gorski added, "did not meet our criteria" for evacuating the building, although he declined to explain what those criteria...