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...REVIEW WHAT affirmative action was intended to, and should, mean. Perhaps the most helpful explanation of its purpose is what can be called the "overcoming-discouragement" premise. This is based on the understanding that systematic discrimination against minorities in America's institutions of higher learning until the recent past, has historically discouraged all but a handful of minorities from even contemplating, let alone applying and competing to enter these institutions. Thus the mandate that affirmative action imposes on universitites is to refrain from any admissions processes that might continue to discourage minorities. This means more than showing no signs...
...thesis should be a learning expeience," says Irene Rosenberg '78, who is studying the structure of DNA taken from corn chloroplast into E. coli bacteria. She hopes to learn about lab techniques, and in the process, contribute information that may someday lead to benefits such as higher crop yields. "My project isn't earth-shattering, it's not cornshattering, either," she says, "but it will provide some information...
...estate's stock for $18 a share. Thus Ball maintains his clout in the banks' affairs. In an eleventh-hour effort to wrench control from Ball, Mills came up with another buyer, Hugh Culverhouse, Mills' law partner, who offered $18.50 a share. Despite Culverhouse's higher bid, the court refused to block the Ball-engineered sale of the stock, and last month the Federal Reserve gave its reluctant blessing to the deal...
...million, but profits have increased only from $15 million to $16.2 million. Acquisition of Miles would raise Bayer's American sales to around $1 billion a year (worldwide sales last year were $8.3 billion, and profits $181 million). But Bayer officials say that though they may go higher than their opening $40-a-share offer, they have no intention of getting into a long battle for Miles-and besides Washington trustbusters are examining whether the acquisition would violate antitrust laws. Should they oppose the takeover, the traders who have grabbed up Miles stock may need some of Alka-Seltzer...
...sense of wonder and intensity. Sometimes she is ostentatious, as in her description of the Pacific coastline, "the fringey edge where elements meet and realms mingle, where time and eternity spatter each other with foam." But at their best, Dillard's sentences have a clean, penetrating edge. "The higher Christian churches," she writes, "come at God with an unwarranted air of professionalism. . . as though they knew what they were doing ... If God were to blast such a service to bits, the congregation would be, I believe, genuinely shocked. But in the low churches you expect it any minute." Henry...