Word: mawr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to more than 2000 Harvard-Radcliffe students, about 5000 students from Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley are participating in the study, funded by a $685,000 grant from the Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation...
...foreign languages and math as part of a strong liberal arts background. That has meant that Georgia Tech, because it mainly trains engineers, has never had a chapter. ΦBK guidelines also indicate that new members rank in the top tenth of their class, a standard that made Bryn Mawr refuse a chapter on grounds that all Bryn Mawr women are academically elite. The grade inflation that began in the late '60s has made it difficult to distinguish the brilliant from the merely bright. Many college chapters, including Harvard's, now examine the records of candidates...
...cent of the students surveyed at Harvard responded to the five-year survey, which is funded by a $650,000 grant from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. The sampling included 2200 women and a "control group" of 1000 men. Another 5800 women were surveyed at Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley...
...Mitterrand four years ago of the sturdy (6 ft. 2 in., 202 lbs.), diligent and impeccably tailored Socialist leader Pierre Mauroy, who is now the new President's Premier. If anything, Mitterrand's assessment rings even more true today. While Mitterrand stayed secluded, Mauroy (pronounced Mawr-wah) led the party's campaign, winning the confidence of voters with his calm advocacy of socialism and the image of a practical man more interested in solving problems than in spinning utopian visions. Says Mauroy: "To change society, you have to reject the illusion of revolution...
...bloodless technocrat of the kind that he had criticized in the Giscard regime. He needed a political figure with a popular touch. No one fit that description better than Pierre Mauroy, 52. The big (6 ft. 2 in.) burly mayor of the northern industrial center of Lille, Mauroy (pronounced Mawr-wah) is an archetypal man of the north, pragmatic, hardworking and direct. He was born in the town of Cartignies, the grandson of a woodcutter and the son of a teacher. His family moved in 1936 to the steelworkers' village of Haussy, where the weekly Socialist street demonstration...