Word: entailed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result of the suit brought by the five policemen would be to implement an affirmative action plan for police recruitment and promotion. It would entail a rewriting of the civil service examinations on the grounds that they discriminate against minority applicant...
Such a decision has so far been avoided because all of the obvious cures entail serious political risks. To increase domestic energy supplies involves such environmental gambles as oil spills at sea and strip mining on land, and as the election returns suggested, environmentalism can be a potent political issue. Conversely, to decrease energy consumption would slow the economy, which seems too weak to stand much strain. No matter what President Ford and the congressional leaders suggest, they will confront criticism...
...departments to affirmative action was probably the most important single reason for the HEW's only outright rejection of the plan. It's easy to understand why--the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, of all the faculties at Harvard, is most concerned with pure scholarship, and that seems to entail a shutting out of everything else in the world. Just as the Faculty could play an integral part in the planning of the Indochina War and then outlaw disruptions by students protesting that partly Harvard-made war, the Faculty seems to feel as if it can remain separate from...
...Nixon with Gerald Ford wouldn't normally represent an important change--though it might rid the presidency of the petty corruption and vindictiveness that today make it an object for laughter as well as sorrow. But an impeachment trial, with the full presumably cathartic public discussion it would inevitably entail, could help spark a rebirth of democracy and a militance about popular participation in making decisions that hasn't been seen in this country since the New Deal. Nixon is right. It is time to stop wallowing in issues of personal guilt or innocence. It's time to defend ourselves...
...Nixon with Gerald Ford wouldn't normally represent an important change--though it might rid the presidency of the petty corruption and vindictiveness that today make it an object for laughter as well as sorrow. But an impeachment trial, with the full presumably cathartic public discussion it would inevitably entail, could help spark a rebirth of democracy and a militance about popular participation in making decisions that hasn't been seen in this country since the New Deal. Nixon is right. It is time to stop wallowing in issues of personal guilt or innocence. It's time to defend ourselves...