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...states "race, like other factors cited by the court as pertinent in interpreting test scores--socio-economic background, educational opportunities, etc.--is a factor bearing directly on the interpretation of test scores, grades and other evidence. To insist that the admission process must rely exclusively on racially neutral criteria and must exclude consideration of race in the interpretation of data is in fact to require discrimination on account of race...
...expense-account meal stretches an executive's time by enabling him to conduct business over a lunch table, and the atmosphere in many restaurants, where both host and guest are on neutral turf and no phones ring, affords a more congenial setting for discussion than an office. In many companies, the expense account is also a perk for executives who have earned at least limited discretion over how they spend their time and the company's money. Manhattan Public Relations Man John Scanlon makes a wry complaint: "It took me all my life to get into the eating...
...There's always a temptation to blame the victim of aggression and remain neutral," he said. "We're a long way from that attitude towards Israel, but not so long as you might think...
...person. As Ann B. Spence, assistant dean of the College pointed out, hundreds of students applied to one person, Mrs. Marshall, and especially high numbers applied during certain seasons. Because students applied at different times, no administrator could have remembered the details of sufficiently many applications to make the neutral connection between one-to-one transfer "fits...
...Much credit was also due to some skillful mediation by nine neutral and nonaligned nations (Austria, Cyprus, Finland, Liechtenstein, Malta, San Marino, Sweden, Switzerland and Yugoslavia). The " NNs," as they were dubbed adroitly provided many of the phrases and even the punctuation of the agreement their own desire (which coincided with Washington's) for a full-scale conference this fall...