Word: looser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...orders. California's constitution had required state judges to impose busing when necessary to cure school segregation even if it resulted from housing patterns that developed without any official intent to segregate. Federal law requires proof of official intent. When they approved Proposition 1, Californians essentially embraced the looser federal standard. By an 8-to-l vote, the Justices upheld that action. Wrote Justice Lewis Powell: "It would be paradoxical to conclude that by adopting the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment, the voters of the state thereby had violated it." Busing...
...continues to blame the lack of minority professors here on the dearth of minorities who have attended graduate schools. His solution is for universities like Harvard to encourage young minority group members to enroll in graduate schools. But the President's own package of policies--from aid cuts to looser federal regulations--would actively discourage such enrollment. Already those cuts have taken their toll. The College's most recent applicant statistics suggest an alarming drop in the number of poor applicants; needy students, many of whom were doubtless minorities, evidently were scared off by the Administration's aid cuts...
Though Harvard would like the President to stick by his looser regulations while not tampering with student aid, it cannot have its way on both counts. Reagan's steps constitute a package that will restrict access to education in the twin names of federalism and meritocracy. For Harvard to oppose one strand of that package--the aid cuts--while supporting its looser scrutiny of universities, smacks of an opportunism of convenience, not a true commitment to equal access in education...
...past must not be to pick and choose among various components, but to oppose the package of reactionism wholesale. If Harvard is to have any clout over federal access-to-education policy, it will not come in persuading other schools that its distinction between opposing aid cuts and supporting looser hiring standards is a principled...
...minis are fuller and more feminine than the tight, boxy '60s style. "Flippy" is the word used by some skirt watchers. Says New York's Cuban-born designer Adolfo: "The old minis looked like clothes that had been chopped off at the bottom. Now they are different, looser." Adds Milan's Giorgio Armani: "The new miniskirt is not stiff and straight but soft, fitted at the hips and gathered for a short volume effect. It is also a natural evolution toward femininity after the dizzying circus of pants, knickers, Bermudas, gauchos and Zouaves." Valentino, the dean...