Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...affirmative-action plan submitted by the University to the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare in February. The plan commits Harvard to employ only a slightly higher number of women and minorities, but predicts an increase in the percentage of women and minorities due to an anticipated drop in overall employment...
...fallen to levels not seen in decades. At the University of Texas, which has produced more minority lawyers than any other school in the country--and where, typically, 30 to 40 blacks enter each year--only 11 blacks were accepted and none had enrolled; the number of Hispanics dropped from more than 50 to 14. In California the schools at both Berkeley and UCLA saw black admissions drop 80%, while the number of Hispanic students fell 50% and 32%, respectively...
...back even such nonquota efforts at affirmative action. The entire Texas university system was forced to change its policies when the Supreme Court let stand an appeals court's 1996 ruling in favor of four white students who sued U.T. law school for racial discrimination. This has caused significant drops in undergraduate minority admissions at U.T. and Texas A&M, the leading schools in the state system, and may result in an even greater drop-off in enrollment, since financial aid must also now be color-blind. In California's case, the impetus for revising its university admissions policies...
...prosecutors were planning a bareknuckle attack. They planned to drop the adultery and fraternization charges, the focus of all the public outrage, in order to deny Flinn the high ground in the media wars. Instead, they would go after her on the counts of lying to investigators about her affair with Zigo, disobeying a direct order to stop seeing him, and conduct unbecoming an officer--charges the Air Force believed were rock solid. That morning a defiant Air Force Chief of Staff, General Ronald R. Fogleman, had thrown down the gauntlet before a Senate committee in a statement that Spinner...
...evidence and warned her that if she didn't break off the affair, Blackley would report it to Flinn's commanding officer. Prosecutors claim that Flinn told Blackley she knew she was in the wrong and promised to "cease contact" with Marc. Blackley decided to let the matter drop...