Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major cause for the Crimson's loss on Saturday was the inefficiency of its offense, due in most part to its lackluster passing. Harvard (3-7 overall, 0-2 Ivy) failed to move the ball effectively on its side of the net and was unable to set and spike well...
...legal battle against sex discrimination has often pitted the backers of women's rights against paternalistic rules that protect -- and bar -- women from the workplace. The fight appears to have taken a new turn as a result of a major federal decision from the Chicago-based Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals...
...trade could not continue on such a scale without the collusion of African officials. "So many of Africa's functionaries are corrupt," says K.T. Wang, one of Hong Kong's major ivory traders. "If they get money, they say it's legal ivory. If they don't get money, they say it's poached." Over the years, senior African officials, their spouses and close friends, and wildlife authorities have been implicated in ivory scandals...
This really is the people's victory. We are going to herald this as a major step forward in the civil rights movement...
...Harvard can serve itself and our society by transcending the notoriously short American time horizon and continuing to invest in minority and women graduate students. The payoff will take a while. In Putnam's words, "It takes time for people to become major scholars whether they are male, female, black, white or pink." But is that an excuse not to push ahead...