Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...success followed by the wise liberal arts student at Harvard. No need to resort to anything so crude as sleeping with your section leader or depositing large checks in a numbered account at Bay Banks. Sidle up to your most prominents professors and tell them what they want to hear. If you have any wits at all, hitching your wagon to enough academic engines can lead to a summer job, fellowships, and best of all, hot reccomendations for the grad school or job of your choice...
...Cleveland, the other the imposition of a minority-membership goal on a New York City union. Last week's decision would seem to bode well for those and other affirmative-action schemes. But William Bradford Reynolds, the combative Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, insisted that he could still hear the Justices playing his tune. Because they had required a showing of prior discrimination before the use of racial preferences, Reynolds now contends that a 1965 presidential order authorizing minority employment goals for Government contractors must be largely abandoned...
...Choking back tears, the defendant protested: "I couldn't hurt a child. They call me 'Papa Jere' in Leogane." Another witness stripped off his shirt in court to exhibit six bullet wounds he suffered in the demonstration. "Jeremie says he is everybody's father," he snapped. "When did you hear of a father shooting his son? He shot...
...While the RRR is supposed to apply to all members of the Harvard-Radcliffe community, only students can be punished by the CRR. No equivalent disciplinary body exists to hear similar cases against administrators and faculty...
Like the rest of the population, the Baby Boomers, particularly the younger ones, voted heavily for Ronald Reagan. It may seem peculiar that the Now generation went for a 73-year-old conservative. But Reagan said what they wanted to hear: boundless opportunity is theirs for the taking. To a generation pinched by high inflation and low wages in the '70s, the President's feel-good message was reassuring. Walter Mondale, on the other hand, came across to many Baby Boomers as the very sort of old-style, special- interest-pandering politician they distrusted...