Word: exclusionism
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A joint committee of the Mass. State Legislature gave its approval last week to a bill that if enacted would remove the absolute exclusion from paying property taxes that Harvard and all other non-profit institutions in the state have enjoyed since 1830.
In turning to Jack and Jill, Tuffin was using an old organization for a new purpose. The group was born in 1938 out of exclusion, to provide elite black children with their own version of cultivated society--teas, cotillions and pool parties--from which they had been barred. Today Jack...
No human community is Eden. In addition to America's usual dividers--race, class, religion, sexual orientation--the students face lingering, debilitating fears of powerlessness and exclusion and wage often bitter linguistic debates over topics abstruse to the hearing world--ASL vs. cued speech; mainstreaming vs. specialized education; and the...
Now, thanks to Erickson?s tenacity - and her employer?s refusal to negotiate - a federal judge has ordered that employer, Seattle area drugstore chain Bartell Drug Co., to include oral contraceptives in the company?s prescription drug coverage plan. District Judge Robert Lasnik ruled Tuesday that Bartell?s refusal to...
? Hardheads. This Administration tends to view the world through the lens of military security, almost to the exclusion of other concerns. In Washington parlance, that means "hard issues" (missile defense, strategic forces, Taiwan) count more than "soft" ones (the environment, AIDS).