Word: handicapping
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...CRIMSON a $500 handicap advantage because of satisfactory past business relations with the Summer School...
...This should either be not-bid at all, or the handicap (in favor of the CRIMSON) should be higher than $500 in view of the years of dependable service we have given them (the University...
...players are ready to take more chances, aim the ball a little closer to the line and make more daring plays. Since visitors are a little more cautions. I'd say the home team has an advantage of about four points a game. "Four points wasn't enough handicap for Amherst...
...considers what this will mean in the future to black applicants for jobs at Harvard. If the helper status-or some form of lower entrance status-does not exist, the black applicants will have to compete directly for journeyman status with white workers who, being free of the handicap of discrimination, would presumably be more skilled. This would maximize both the handicap of black workers, and the hostility from white workers created by any preference given to blacks...
However adventurous their ova, women themselves do not, in truth, have a record of soaring achievement. (One handicap mentioned by many career women is simply that they don't have wives.) The explanation offered by Darwin among others is that the male is more variable than the female. According to this reasoning, female intelligences cluster at the center of the range, while male intelligences extend to the further reaches of genius-and imbecility as well...