Word: hewed
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...Terrel Bell, suggested that the deed be done by transferring the programs to a new Government foundation, similar to the National Science Foundation. Bell prefers this approach over the option of returning the Education Department to the Department of Health and Human Services in the form of the old HEW...
...Said Moran: "I have very serious doubts whether a compelling state interest in a diverse student body overbears the free exercise of religious rights of the First Amendment." The A.B.A. then hastened to put the finishing touches on a liberalized version of its standard, which would allow schools to hew to a religious tradition if their programs and policies "do not constitute invidious discrimination among applicants." Even at that, O.W. Coburn may not win accreditation. Its insistence on maintaining a Christian litmus test for faculty members runs afoul of even the new standard-for infringing upon academic freedom...
Harvard--threatened with the loss of $60 million in federal contracts from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW)--complied, submitting the first in a long series of affirmative action plans. The plan was rejected and a letter from the HEW regional office charged Harvard with discrimination on the basis of sex. At that time only six of the University's 738 tenured faculty members were women...
...easier to reconcile Israel's Ashkenazim and Sephardim than to bridge the chasm between the country's powerful Orthodox Jews and those who hew to more liberal religious views, or simply to secular values. The state is secular, but in personal matters the strict judgments of the Orthodox Rabbinates rule, a hangover from the years when the British, following Ottoman Empire custom, left such powers in the hands of local religious leaders. Thus marriage, divorce, inheritance, adoption-all are under the jurisdiction of the religious, not civil, courts. The 250,000 Orthodox Jews wield a political clout...
Jody Powell, 37, former White House press secretary, on why fired HEW Secretary Joseph Califano blasts ex-President Jimmy Carter in his upcoming political memoirs: "Hell hath no fury like a fat cat Washington lawyer scorned...