Word: equalizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...constrain, their social events and general well-being. No consensus is reached by the club presidents. Epps tells The Crimson "the presidents are all very troubled by the dilemma of on the one hand honoring [all-male] tradition, and [on the other] the force of the ethical issue of equal treatment for women...
...NCAA managed to toss a wrench into the icemen's campaign as well, disallowing. Allan Bourbeau from returning to competition after two semesters off. A victim of an "academic progress" rule. Bourbeau met Harvard's stringent criteria for returning to the ice, but failed to equal the more arbitrary guidelines of the NCAA...
...ever have been in any major country in the world. Furthermore, this country remains a republic and a democracy and has made a decent and encouraging start at erasing the racism and other forms of discrimination that have so long made a mockery of our pretensions to equal opportunity. I firmly believe that, with goodwill and a bit of luck, we shall keep on progressing--in fits and starts and with occasional setbacks--in the right direction.Credit 1935 Harvard YearbookThe author's yearbook picture, and the 1935 graduation message from the president...
With fewer words but equal devastation, Epstein draws a bead on Norman Mailer and plugs him as "a serious writer except when he is thinking, and the trouble is that over his long career he has been thinking a very great deal." Perhaps to quote such provocative thrashings is to suggest an intemperate, flailing harangue, but every round-house blow is prepared-with deft, critical jabs and well-documented proof of delinquency...
...charred ruins of the neighborhood destroyed when police bombed a cult group's stronghold. In city hall, Mayor W. Wilson Goode named a commission to assess his administration's performance in the crisis. The panel is led by William H. Brown III, a former chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and includes former Watergate Prosecutor Henry S. Ruth Jr. Said Goode: "I tried very hard to find people with an independent thought process. I want the truth." The same day, Managing Director Leo Brooks, who helped direct the assault on the Move headquarters, announced his intention to resign...