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...Impetus behind the "Forum on Minority Participation in Higher Education" also emanates from President Bok, who has placed high prior- ity on increasing the presence of minorities atthe undergraduate, graduate, faculty andadministrative levels, the three Harvard officialssaid...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Minorities in Academia May Be Subject of Forum | 11/10/1987 | See Source »

...most extreme cases end up on the street, with no family to care for them and no impetus to care for themselves. The new New York City program addresses their needs...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Three Hots and a Cot | 11/7/1987 | See Source »

...impetus for Cambridge's 1970 law that established rent control was the 33 percent citywide rise in rents that year and the consequent eviction of numerous tenants from apartments in the Cambridge Port district. Indeed, the law explicitly cited the "emergency conditions" presented by the "substantial and increasing shortage of rental housing accommodations for families of low and moderate income and abnormally high rents...

Author: By Stephen L. Ascher, | Title: Tyranny of the Tenant | 11/3/1987 | See Source »

...also noted, however, that the plan should be seen as "an impetus to other kinds of movement on the part of the Sandinistas," and that it contains "loopholes...that we are concerned about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan Makes Pitch for More Contra Aid | 10/8/1987 | See Source »

However, it wasn't as if I needed more impetus to win. In my mind, I was going to exonerate Mr. Riggs by beating Ms. Porter just 15 miles from the site of his loss--in Missouri City, a suburb of Houston...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Distaff Distress | 8/11/1987 | See Source »

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