Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...approached his position as captain quietly, attempting on a squad occasionally characterized by minor on-court squabbles to "create a team atmosphere where the guys are depending on each other...
First, why did Bok raise so many objections to the Fogg's plans only after the fact? Several of these factors--a hike in the cost bricks, a slight rise in architects' fees, and concern about a proposed bridge to link the new museum and the Fogg--appeared minor enough that they could surely have been overcome had Bok raised them earlier...
...proposal to a new and generally inexperienced ACSR. A Corporation official began the January meeting with a homily on the evils of apartheid and the great weight he placed on ethical criteria in investment policy. Then, almost as a casual afterthought, he asked the ACSR to rectify a "minor flaw" in the University's current bank policy which would force it to divest from banks trying to make "good loans" to the South African government. He gave as an example the Citibank loan which he claimed South African Blacks actually solicited...
...Corporation representatives employed specious arguments and unscrupulous tactics in asking the ACSR to ratify a major policy departure presented in the guise of a minor modification, and without the benefit of a detailed discussion either within the ACSR or among the Harvard community as a whole. The proposed alteration was not a minor technical matter but the effective abrogation of the University's South African policy. Second, the Citibank loan was not solicited by South African Blacks. The Wall Street Journal of Sept. 26. 1980 quotes South African Finance Minister Owen Horwood, who was exultant over the case with which...
Moore and his family are very upset by the "minor" nature of Scalese's departmental punishment, Shakur said...