Word: equal
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...strongly committed to equal access for financial aid applicants under Early Action. Under our Early Action Program, admitted financial aid applicants can apply to regular action programs elsewhere and have the benefit of comparing our financial aid package with those of other institutions. In fact, many high school counselors urge students who will need financial aid not to apply to binding early decision programs which limit them necessarily to a single financial aid offer...
...They will argue that the incident was "severe" enough--and that Clinton was powerful enough--to create a "hostile environment." Her lawyers will have a hard time finding cases that build a precedent for the single-incident theory, but it is embedded in the harassment guidelines of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: "a single unwelcome physical advance can seriously poison the victim's working environment," they say. Is a poisoned environment a hostile environment? That's up to a jury...
...court's insistence on showing a disparity in treatment of men and women could have a perverse effect: "If you see a sexual harassment claim coming, you can just start abusing women too," says Deborah Epstein, who teaches law at Georgetown University. And that could inspire a new legalism: equal-opportunity harasser...
...minutes for a pitch. Nichols smartly said, "The reason I want to film the novel is that it's about honor, and that's the thing very good movies are about." That speech, and $1.5 million, put him over. Universal later reimbursed him for the rights (plus an almost equal amount tied to various bonus incentives) and also spent a reported $5 million to get him to direct and produce the film. Then Nichols...
...Equal numbers of graduate students and faculty, at least one undergraduate and at least one administrator would sit on the committee chaired by the master of Dudley House...