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...regular courses. While such integration would be ideal, it seems disingenuous to suggest that the same Faculty that has allowed only 16 women into its ranks will be much more receptive to women's perspectives in the near future. Harvard has four years to convince the world that its low-key, integrative approach would work. Yet it has done virtually nothing...
...1970s the club declined in popularity as more students brought their own cars to college and used them to get off campus, and political and feminist movements grabbed the attention of undergraduates. Membership dropped by about one half, and what emerged is the low-key and loosely structured organization that exists today...
...low-key, undramatic way, he has presided over some major changes in policy. While insisting that he will vigorously enforce antidiscrimination laws. Smith announced that the Justice Department will not advocate court-enforced busing as a means of desegregating schools. Smith has also sent a clear signal that big is not necessarily bad, thereby dampening the department's antitrust fervor and creating a favorable climate for corporate mergers and takeover attempts...
...brief 700-word document was signed without fanfare by Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger at an informal dinner at the National Geographic Society in Washington. The occasion was so low-key that neither the press nor television was invited. And, in what seemed an extraordinarily calculated effort to play down the whole affair, the Pentagon failed even to give its customary briefing afterward. Sharon pronounced himself pleased nonetheless. "The agreement is a very wide one," he declared. "It covers everything." But by the time he arrived back in Jerusalem, the quiet agreement...
...operation was purposely kept small and low-key. It involved only about 3,500 officers and enlisted men, sent in groups of three or four to 2,000 small towns and villages. Instead of moving against strikers, the soldiers began to attack the supply and distribution bottlenecks that are strangling the economy. Some army teams, for example, uncovered caches of hoarded coal and consumer goods. One patrol forced a state farm to harvest 600 tons of potatoes that would otherwise have rotted in the field. Another fixed a village heating system. Walesa gave the operation a limited endorsement when...