Word: equal
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...There is no way you can claim there is equal opportunity when you cut aid," says Charles B. Saunders, a lobbyist for the American Council on Education, which has played an active role in fighting Reagan's budget cuts in federal student age. Says Saunders, explaining the widely stated rationale for student and programs. "By definition you're limiting the kind of access to higher education...
Offsetting these cuts, however, is a major hike in funding for work study programs from $550 million to $850 million. The level of Pell Grant funding would remain equal. (See accompanying story...
...military, gay people make discipline and recruitment difficult. This past spring a military spokes-person at Harvard reflected this sentiment with "homosexuals make other people uncomfortable." Another officer has been quoted as saying that "we don't necessarily have to reflect the values of society." In other words equal access, individual liberty, and rationality are not necessarily values the armed forces must accept...
Those of us who ardently desire a racially equal society are naturally tempted into calling for radical means to bring about that end as quickly as possible. Nevertheless, some of us don't succumb, because we know that the rights which are violated today for a good cause may be violated tomorrow for a bad one. The safest course is never to violate them at all. James...
Chairman of the Chemistry Departures Richard H. Holm said yesterday." All things being equal, it's about time the FAS and someone from the sciences, but the present dean has had a very good chemistry with the sciences...