Word: legacyism
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WE CONTINUE to urge the College to abandon its archaic, aristocratic policy of giving preference in admissions to children of alumni, or "legacies." Legacy status--a biological accident--improves an applicant's chances of being admitted by almost three times.
The relocation backlash is just one symptom of the gradually changing attitude toward work. Employees are also beginning to balk at the long office hours that are the legacy of the '80s' corporate retrenchments that pared staffs and deepened the work loads of those who remained behind. Corporate loyalty is...
But alongside that highly industrialized Brazil lives another, desperately poor country where 70% of the 150 million citizens live in poverty. That is the legacy of the chronic overspending that began in the 1970s when military rulers borrowed heavily from Western banks to cope with spiraling petroleum prices and to...
The PR department at Radio Habana Cuba was the most prolific of all. One time I got I deck of "Heroes of the Revolution" playing cards with Fidel and Che on the backs. The station periodically sent me contest applications: "If you write in telling us what the most enduring...
The real origin of the suspicions about Germany's future is, of course, its dark past, namely the crimes committed during the twelve-year reign of Adolf Hitler. Hitler, after all, did not commit those crimes by himself; other Germans piloted the bombers over Warsaw, and other Germans operated the...