Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under an agreement signed by the two schools in 1977, Radcliffe College is legally and fiscally independent from Harvard. The institution independently owns more than 20 acres of prime Cambridge real estate and has an endowment of about $200 million.
Female undergraduates would no longer receive diplomas adorned with the Radcliffe seal or the signature of a Radcliffe president. The unique diploma, a symbol of the 120-year-old institution's continued presence on campus, became the focal point of a debate last year among undergraduates.
At a lunch for undergraduates two weeks ago,Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson did not ruleout the possibility that she will be stepping downas the head of the 120-year-old institution.
It seems to me that prisons, especially women's prisons are mostly a way of racially based scape-goating. Prison as punishment legitimizes an inherently destructive institution, and distracts from more practical attempts to work with communities to address their problems, especially-growing economic inequities and continuing patriarchy and white...
Corporate Korea may also be getting the message that it needs to change. The Housing & Commercial Bank, for example, was a clunky, state-run institution until two years ago and the only bank in Korea allowed to make mortgage loans to home buyers. Lending money used to be a relaxed...