Word: means
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kampuchea and liberalizing its joint-venture laws to permit greater ownership by foreign investors. Even the hermit tyranny of North Korea has agreed to cooperate with a Seoul businessman in the development of a mountain resort just north of the Demilitarized Zone -- a breakthrough that will probably mean more for geopolitics than for international tourism...
...judgement, if not its true dedication to tolerance and education. In trying to raise our consciousness, it wounded and alienated a large group of Mather students, the friends of the visiting 17-year-old harassee. The tone of the debate at the ensuing Mather House meeting revealed a callous, mean-spirited side of what should be a caring, empathetic desire for tolerance and understanding in campus life. Their thoughtless handling of the situation has created a hurt and embittered group of otherwise sympathetic Mather students who will never in the future be able to take Defeat Homophobia seriously again...
...Crimson now stands at 9-3 in the Ivies, and The Big Green falls to 10-2. Today the rivals switch opponents: Harvard challenges the Tigers, and Darmouth meets the Quakers. A Crimson victory will mean that it can play Dartmouth for a share of the Ivy title Tuesday in Hanover...
...very nature fraught with difficulties and the institutions we have established to achieve it are inevitably flawed," Cremin said it remains "one of the most radical ideas in the Western world." In his upcoming lectures, Cremin plans to continue to "explore some of these problems and what they [mean] to education in our time...
...purpose of this report we do not take the expression "affirmative action" to mean preferential treatment for disadvantaged groups....We take affirmative action to mean conscientious effort to counteract passive as well as active discrimination....Affirmative action involves vigorous effort to search beyond traditional networks; to broaden traditional definitions of field, approach or criteria; and to resist the inertia that works to ensure relative homogeneity among faculty and students...