Word: defaulting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...view of the majority, and this majority should include both students and faculty. Faculty have argued that students prefer the Ad Board because it provides confidentiality and punishment based on precedent. The faculty should let the students decide this. The disciplinary board should have student representation as the default condition; student participation in disciplinary decisions is, at present, merely lip service. Only if the Ad Boarded student wishes for more privacy would he or she then request a trial by merely faculty representatives...
...best interests to call the kisses of first-graders acts of sexual harassment. We could decry the boys' actions without appealing to sexual harassment laws. When we do make such an appeal, we teach young girls that they are, even in the most egalitarian of situations, victims by default. To call such behavior inappropriate is one thing; to impose preconceived notions about gender roles upon innocent six-year-olds is another. Ironically, the law that was designed to promote equality in the workplace is now being used to teach inequality in the schools...
...factor in the explosion: people with lousy credit represent a massive and largely untapped market for new loans. Most of them are working folks who don't qualify for conventional bank financing, perhaps because of a past lapse or a layoff. On average, they are far more likely to default, but they are willing, even eager, to pay up for credit...
...heavily Republican district, Bates knows she's a long shot. But her frustration with Congress--two government shutdowns and a threat to default on the national debt--propelled her into the race. Though she feels the TIME/CQ Issues are too complex for a yes-or-no response, she has plenty of opinions about them. Bates wants a balanced budget, and believes it can be achieved with common sense and compassion...
...Even worse than taking a tumble, which resulted in pictures of the candidate helpless on the ground, and referring to the "Brooklyn Dodgers" (who moved to Los Angeles almost 40 years ago), Dole last week let Clinton win the endorsement of the nation's largest police union virtually by default...