Word: longer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this bill becomes law, the very concept of equality of opportunity will no longer exist in practice. Although Senator Nunn claims that the bill will "promote upward mobility," it is hard to see how it will serve to do anything but freeze people's current positions in the social structure...
Math skills are also dispensable. Up until a few years ago, Princeton Review counselled students to solve geometry problems not by learning the material but by folding up their tests to create different size angles. Because ETS outlawed tearing and folding of the test booklet, Princeton Review no longer uses this technique. But through other methods such as predicting the sequences of answers, one can still get a good score without actually learning any material...
...Club will no longer be responsible for opening and closing the gates to the "People's Garden," a Harvard-owned property adjacent to the club, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III said yesterday...
...Harvard] should be passive and let events take their course, it will implicitly choose a certain type of environment--one, perhaps, in which all Cambridge slowly becomes like Harvard and MIT, until we find that we are no longer an urban university, but one which has allowed there to grow up around itself a kind of inner-city suburb with a single kind of life style, carried on by professors, students, psychiatrists, and the executives of electronics and consulting firms," the Wilson report read...
...month later, the situation had changed. The SDS demands at University Hall--and the subsequent, slightly different platform approved by a meeting of 6000 in Harvard stadium later that week--signaled that students and the city could unite. Harvard could no longer simply ignore its role in the city...