Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Approximately 30 percent of early action candidates are admitted, compared to 15 of all applicants in 1987. At the same time, admissions officials say, there are proportionally fewer students from outside New England and Mid-Atlantic states, fewer minorities besides Asian-Americans, fewer students from inner city areas and fewer athletes...
Many students who would contribute "diversity" to a class--those from inner-city public high schools, poorer economic backrounds and foreign countries, and athletes--fail to apply early because counsellors cannot give them enough attention...
...drug money" aren't convincing. Many other countries have succeeded in preventing drugs from becoming a national catastrophe. But our government, as the Washington case demonstrates, has failed because it is unwilling to attack the source of the nation's drug problems: the hopelessness and poverty of the inner city...
Bush is unwilling to attack the demand side of the drug equation, cleaning up the inner city, because it entails renouncing many of his conservative principles. He would have to advocate ending residential segregation, investing much more in inner-city schools and expanding substantive economic opportunities for ghetto residents. While he may be slowly breaking out of the Reagan mold, he still has a very long...
...real drug crisis may be that Americans don't want to clean up the inner city. Drug abusers are viewed by many as morally repugnant, and few voters want to spend precious tax dollars on the urban poor. According to Dr. David Musto of Yale, "Middle class Americans may become so absolutely disgusted that all they will want to do is arrest everyone or wall up the inner city...