Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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I'm trying to ignore for the moment that the decision about implementing a partial random lottery housing system disregarded student opinion. I'll pretend that, without considering the merits of university decisions, students should have no voice in making the policies that affect only them. With the random lottery...
University administrators have certainly considered this objection. Their proposed hotel would include only "limited service"--no shops or added luxuries.
Six votes are needed to approve zoning changes, seven if 20 percent of the property owners file an objection. Vellucci said he therefore doubted that the hotel proposal would pass the council.
So what if Harvard produces fewer profit-chewing physicians, some might charge, citing the classic occupation for science majors. That objection has some merit. Yet science concentrations also prepare research doctors, of whom we can never have enough. Science concentrations also make for more broadly informed politicians, lawyers and businessmen...
Another common objection is that higher wages mean that American firms will be less competitive in international markets. "America's competitive position could be jeopardized by the minimum wage bill," warns Richard Bernman, chairman of the Minimum Wage Coalition to Save Jobs, a collection of business groups opposed to the...