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Similarly, the proportion of men who thought women were "temperamentally unfit for management" declined, from 51% in 1965 to 18% this year. Said one male corporate vice president interviewed for the survey: "Women run the gamut from poor to excellent, just as men do." Perhaps more significant, 47% of the male executives said they would feel comfortable working for a woman, compared with 27% earlier. Concluded the authors of the study: "Stereotypes once held as truth have begun slowly to crumble...
Black programs show up in the defense budget under such cryptic code names as Link Hazel and Dreamland, and receive funds without the ordinary congressional review. Current projects, according to those who have peeked behind the veil, run the gamut from Grass Blade, designed to develop an air-defense system for intercepting low-flying helicopters, to Pilot Fish, aimed at placing transmitters on the ocean floor to pick up sonar data and transmit it to antisubmarine warfare craft. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Donald Hicks says that black budgeting is necessary "because a government as open...
Groups on thefacebook.com run the gamut of Summers support, from the “Larry Summers Defamation League” to “Students for Summers,” with the more ambiguous “Coalition of Harvard Students for the Exorcism of the Hundreds of Souls Living in Larry Summers” and “Larry Summers is a Douchebag, But I Support Him Anyway” also garnering dozens of members...
Holden is the editor-in-chief of “The Gamut,” an annual poetry review which will be holding a student poetry reading during Arts First; he is a poetry board member of “The Advocate,” a literary magazine; and he is an editor of “Cinematic,” a film review magazine...
...criticism of Soviet emigration policies and Reagan's recent rebukes of the oppressive nature of Soviet society, the Kremlin under Mikhail Gorbachev has taken the offensive with a rancorous propaganda drive. Its goal is to paint the U.S. as a nation teeming with human rights violations that run the gamut from unemployment to genocide. "They used to deal with human rights criticism by sitting in cold silence," says one senior Western diplomat in Moscow. "Now the new leadership are tough and embattled and intend to match our criticism with criticism of their...