Word: equality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard and Yale] are pretty equal in a lot of things," he continues, "but I really like the Harvard squash team and the fact my brother was going to be co-captain was appealing...
...count, only 61 of the 2,500 senior policy staff members working for the Senate are black. There are, however, no exact records -- because Congress has exempted itself from equal-opportunity and affirmative-action laws...
...Congressional Aide Tom Pappas leaps to his death after it is revealed that for years he engaged in unorthodox employment practices, including advertising for single young men (photographs requested) and making unusual demands on their social lives. Congress has exempted itself from equal-employment laws that might prevent such practices in private industry...
Allison's mandate from Bok was to make the school the financial and academic equal of Harvard's other graduate schools. He has succeeded at the former. In ten years he has increased the endowment from $20 million to $450 million. But compared with the older schools at the university, says Harvard Vice President John Shattuck, it "is still the new kid on the block working to define its mission." Its efforts to be taken seriously academically are hampered by its high visibility as a kind of Betty Ford clinic for recovering politicians: Geraldine Ferraro, David Stockman, David Gergen...
...school? If not, how many of these students and/or their families choose not to attend because of the cost? This university opens its doors and welcomes students without regard to ethnic and socio-economic back-round, then reminds some on their way out that they are still not on equal footing with their graduating classmates...