Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year, for example, tempers were imflamed among women when they discovered that as a result of Radcliffe's status as an independent institution from Harvard, male undergraduates were receiving a disproportionately large amount of funds in the work-study program, funds that the women could not share. The problem...
The announcements gave a slight but encouraging boost to the embattled dollar. Said Lawrence Krause, an economist with the Brookings Institution: "The Administration is playing it very wisely so far. You don't want to panic the markets the other way and shoot up the value of the dollar. Dribbling...
You are probably asking yourself, "Why in hell would anyone be so stupid as to turn in the same paper three years in a row?" The point is not so much that it was the same paper, it is that the paper was successful, and that is what really counts...
In a nation with an all but obsessive concern about self-improvement, one institution so far has remained relatively impervious to change: the bureaucracy. Otto von Bismarck inaugurated the German civil service in 1871, an innovation that many of his countrymen now regard as the Iron Chancellor's least...
The increased tendency of injured parties to sue somebody-anybody-has several roots. One is a heightened public awareness that government agencies, private companies and individuals are vulnerable to lawsuits, and that juries too often are overly generous. The publicity given to big awards awakens greed. Says Colorado State Senator...