Word: failed
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...obsessed with tradition and less impressed by themselves. Color pictures are more attractive, as any black-and-white television watcher can attest. Charts and graphs aid understanding, as any graduate of a high school algebra and trigonometry class knows. Most articles that continue beyond the page they start on fail to compel readers to turn the page. All sad but true facts for the newspaper traditionalist educator...
...companies it invests in abide by the Sullivan Principles, which set forth suggested minimum wage and labor standards for U.S. companies operating in South Africa. President Bok issued a policy statement that year agreeing with the ACSR recommendation, and stating that the University would divest from companies that fail to meet the minimum requirement of the Sullivan Principles. Nevertheless, to this day the University has not yet divested from any company on these grounds...
Widespread praise for the council's accomplishments, though, has been tempered largely by the flip side of its initial scorecard: Recurring indications of the council's tendency to follow the quick-and-easy way of reacting to student concerns that has inevitably caused past student governments to fail. The most obvious symptoms were the council's endorsement this spring of several "political" positions. In responding to the call for Harvard to divest from holdings in businesses operating in South Africa and the Food Workers' Union demands during ongoing contract negotiations, the council supported groups without protracted debate, often basing...
...companies it invests in abide by the Sullivan Principles, which set forth suggested minimum wage and labor standards for U.S. companies operating in South Africa. President Bok issued a policy statement that year agreeing with the ACSR recommendation, and stating that the University would divest from companies that fail to meet the minimum requirement of the Sullivan Principles. Nevertheless, to this day the University has not yet divested from any company on these grounds...
...masculinity. "Not maleness, but the traditional male role, which requires men to be stoic. It requires men to not need intimacy, to be in control, to be the 'big wheel,' and when there is a problem to 'give 'em hell.' The difficulty is that nine out of ten men fail at that list, at least in their own judgment...