Word: fide
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...illiterate jock learned to read at Georgia and thus became a mail clerk instead of a garbage man, the university was doing its job. A tape playback of Trotter addressing a faculty meeting included her comment that if teachers thought some of the athletes had a bona fide chance of graduating, "we're talking through our hats." Apparently so: the Macon Telegraph and News reported that in ten years only 17% of Georgia's black football players graduated...
With her athletic skills and her influence as a leader, Hayes has turned both the basketball and softball squads into bona fide contenders...
...about Harvard as an institution than it does about the specific issue at hand. Every informed person seems reasonably sure that the decision stemmed from a desire to avoid demonstrations or other "unpleasantries" directed against President Reagan, the most likely honorary recipient. If true, this is certainly a bona fide reason for the decision; no one wants Harvard to look stupid on national television. But why did the Corporation fear such disruption in the first place...
After Howard failed a routine lie detector test, the posting was canceled, and he was fired by the agency. Howard returned to his native New Mexico and became a bona fide economic analyst for the state legislative finance committee. After Yurchenko began identifying KGB "assets" in the U.S. during a lengthy debriefing, the FBI started a thorough background check on Howard, including interviews with co-workers and neighbors. Howard was last seen at his office on Sept. 21, a Saturday. The next day his supervisor found a letter announcing his resignation for "personal reasons." It is assumed that Howard fled...
...that has broad implications for older workers in many occupations, the U.S. Supreme Court last week upheld the claim of Criswell and the others, ruling unanimously that employers must meet a stringent legal standard before they can institute blanket retirement rules. Being younger than 60 is not a "bona fide occupational qualification," wrote Justice John Paul Stevens, unless it can be shown that all flight engineers over that age present a safety risk or that it is "highly impractical" to make individual judgments about their health...