Word: nevertheless
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...Nevertheless, Harvard clearly believes that some disadvantaged minority students--in addition to those who have the benefit of prep and private school educations, or who come from middle and upper class backgrounds--would make "attractive" candidates--in Young's terms--were they to apply to Harvard. Otherwise, the admissions office presumably would not send student recruiters to high schools in low income areas with predominantly minority student bodies. Yet many of these students will not apply, mainly because they expect their low or mediocre grades and test scores to keep them...
...coherence it could well lose him readers who are not so enviably optimistic as he appears to be about the future. There are a few passages that sound a bit too close to the "God is Great, God is Good" sermons. Cox's enthusiasm might disturb the complacent atheist. Nevertheless, there are moments when even the slickest cynics would probably think again, as when this indubitably religious man concludes...
...Nevertheless, this year the admissions board staff will put in some extra hours. "We're talking about 200 people, going through and looking at the corrected score versus the original score. Where we find a difference, we must then re-evaluate the candidate," Foley said...
Elizabeth did not suffer fools of the pretentious kind gladly, if at all; but it was not only 'interesting people' in whom she was interested. Nice bores, and the oddest and most unlikely people, received her sympathetic and undivided attention. Nevertheless, in Oxford she did begin to meet 'interesting people' in large numbers for the first time. And the Oxford generation with which her arrival coincided was by any standards an extraordinary one. Through David Cecil, she met Maurice Bowra, who, then in his mid-twenties-he was a year older than Elizabeth-was fellow...
Zealotry seems to be on the increase at HEW. Over the years, no city has surpassed New York in helping the poor and integrating minorities. Nevertheless, the city was cited by HEW'S Office for Civil Rights for permitting a racial imbalance of teachers. Last September, the agency demanded a reapportionment so that each school district would have the same percentage of minority teachers as the system as a whole. The school board was compelled to separate 3,500 teachers into two lines, one for whites, the other for blacks and Hispanics. Then they drew their new assignments...