Word: laying
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Here as elsewhere, Bok seeks to lay down an ethical line. The practice of hiring minority professors preferentially, he writes, "threatens to diminish the academic enterprise by lowering the quality of teaching and research." Rather than promoting justice, he says, preferential hiring practices "unfairly penalizes candidates of superior ability while holding little promise of achieving greater equality in the society as a whole...
...Kissinger. In a speech at The Hague, Vance and Muskie's predecessor as Secretary of State said of SALT II: "It seems to me a reasonable way to end the current impasse, establish a baseline for later reductions and end the agitation for quick fixes." Kissinger, who helped lay the groundwork for SALT II, recommended modifications to the treaty, such as slightly lowering the ceiling for delivery systems in order to "symbolize" a commitment to reductions. Stressing that he was speaking as a private citizen who has had "next to no access" to the current Administration, Kissinger observed...
That is as he wants it. Before him lay yet another day in Portugal, including a visit to the strife-ridden city of Oporto. And beyond that there would be other trips and other potentially threatening situations. But John Paul refuses to stay aloof from the people he wants to meet, despite his own awareness of danger. "This is not the first attempt on the life of the Pope," he confided to an old friend from Poland after the Fátima attack. " Nor will it be the last." -By Mayo Mohs. Reported by Martha de la Cal and Wilton...
...Cambridge School Committee, the city teacher's union and a group representing minority teachers and parents have reached a negotiated settlement in a long-running dispute over the school committee's lay-off policy. Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci announced at last night's city council meeting...
With Vellucci acting as mediator, the three groups agreed on modifications of the teachers' contract designed to prevent the lay-off of tenured or minority teachers. The changes require that staff members land off recently be rehired on the basis of seniority...