Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ratios in five Houses proved inadequate to create comfortable coed communities. Women held mass meetings last spring to argue for acceptable ratios in the Harvard Houses. Their requests were met: in applying to the Harvard Houses, women were allowed to choose among them on the basis of maximum ratios of men to women. To spread women thinly among all Harvard Houses would break the tacit promise of acceptable ratios made to them last spring...
...right to employment has caused some of the sharpest controversy. Back in the days of the sweatshops, feminists and some unions argued heatedly for the passage of maximum-hours laws and other protective measures. They won an occasional victory, complete with flourishes of male rhetoric. "The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life," the Supreme Court declared in 1872, but it happened to be protecting women by allowing them to be barred from the practice...
...Bible, and the sky above them. Bigger-hearted men carve out their own living communities and bring back McCabe and Mrs. Miller, or, better still, a Wild Bunch. Hardier minds document the ravages of society up-front, eschewing allegory, in an Hour of the Furnaces. Kubrick, always an ironist, maximum exploiter of minor tools and passions, stays in a London studio--and cuts himself off from whatever roots his art grew from...
James A. Sharaf '59, attorney in the Office of the General Counsel, said that all student activities except athletics have traditionally received only voluntary support in order to "ensure the maximum independence of student organization...
...third week of November last year, she called the first regional meeting of PIRG organizers. MassPIRG: East now covers approximately 35 schools "east of Wellesley." If each of these institutions support PIRG, the Eastern Massachusetts Region would have a maximum of 240,000 student members, and an annual budget...