Word: laxness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...portable barbecues for mechanics and pilots, while many at the gathering sported buttons that read ASK ME, I'M THE OWNER. Meanwhile, newly anointed chairman Gerald Greenwald, a former vice chairman of Chrysler, was flying coach from New York City's La Guardia to O'Hare and on to LAX and Denver to introduce himself to his new employers. And Mary Beth Andrews, who has worked at United since John F. Kennedy was President, was sharing pizza with co-workers in her balloon-filled Chicago ticket office and delaying her decision to retire. "We don't need champagne," she insisted...
...reputation as an academic tortoise, I did, indeed concentrate in history. With relatively lax requirements and a reputation for a high baseball cap quotient, the History Department is often regarded as the perfect repository for those taking the slow lane through Harvard. I have long suspected that more than one of my more academically inclined friends (particularly those in the honorsconcentrations of Social Studies and History and Literature) think of me as the archetypical history concentrator...
...believe:1967 1968 1969 Army should be voluntary -- 38.5% 55.6% You have a good chance of participating in protests 4.5% 4.3% 7.5% Government should control student activists -- -- 48.2% Colleges are too lax on protesters 46.8% 53.6% 59.9% Marijuana should be legalized -- 18.5% 24.1% Married women belong at home 54.8% -- -- Disadvantaged students should get preference in college admissions 41.3% 40.8% 39.5% Government should desegregate schools -- -- 55.4% Capital punishment should be abolished -- -- 56.7% Government should eliminate TV violence -- -- 25.2% Student publications should be cleared...
...edition of the American Council onEducation report contained a survey showing that44.9 percent of male undergraduates who entereduniversities in 1967 felt that administrators weretoo lax on protesters. Of men who entereduniversities in 1969--the year after the Columbiastrike--60.8 percent felt administrators were toolenient...
...many cases, students voting in thereferendum were not required to showidentification, they said. The procedures appearedto be most lax in the Freshman Union, where therewas no effort to confirm voters' identities...