Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this as a compromise between what the Committee has proposed and the ideal solution." Pettigrew said, "but each department, whether or not it recruited blacks, would be contributing about seven per cent of its scholarship budget to the goal of having black graduated students at Harvard...
...Investment parity turns out to be an elusive ideal: almost any corporation might be found to be engaged in some activity that some would consider deleterious to the public welfare...
...sounding the alarm, which should give pause to even the most ardent environmentalists, WHO pointed to the experience of Ceylon, located off the southern tip of India in a tropical climate ideal for the breeding of the malaria-carrying Anopheles mosquito. There, a concentrated campaign of DDT spraying cut the incidence of malaria from 2.8 million cases in 1946 to only 110 cases in 1961. But after Ceylonese authorities, considering the battle won, dropped the spraying program, the disease returned with a vengeance. During 1968 and 1969, it afflicted 2.5 million people...
...question of what is the ideal ratio of undergraduate men to undergraduate women the results were...
Committees, like Thoreau's notion of the lawyer's truth, are more concerned with consistency and expediency than they are concerned with substantive issues. The ideal committee, as absurdist dramatists have pointed out, would concern itself solely with its own procedures and forms. When a committee is forced to consider a matter outside of itself, the best it can hope for is consistency and symmetry. The Committee of Fifteen had to settle for a baroque symmetry-they ruled that everyone in April was guilty, the Administration as well as the students. Issues like ROTC were consigned to unofficial memos...