Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, most lawmakers conceded the blueprint would fail to meet the $108 billion deficit target of the Gramm-Rudman budget-balancing law. Democrats argued it did more to cut red ink than any other option, including the president...
...APIA poll that although many students said they would take public interest summer jobs if they could afford to, only 16 first-year students actually chose that option...
...additional part of the new program, students moving into the new housing will have the option of joining Dudley House or retaining their current house affiliation. Transfer students may enter a lottery for affiliation with a residential house after being affiliated with Dudley for at least one term...
Duke Kent-Brown is neither the first nor the last person subject to action by protesters while visiting Harvard. He and others like him should have their right to speak protected. But in guaranteeing that right, the administration must not ignore the option of students to demonstrate their opposition by civil disobedience. Instead, police and other officials should take it upon themselves to assure that a speech reaches its proper conclusion, even if such assurances require negotiation with or removal of demonstrators on the scene. Instead of adopting a defensive, defeatist attitude, officials should enforce freedoms of speech and movement...
Voluntary affirmative action. According to last week's ruling, companies and agencies have the option of adopting voluntary programs to hire and promote qualified minorities and women to correct a "manifest imbalance" in their representation in various job categories, even when there is no evidence of past discrimination. Decisions should not be made exclusively on the basis of race or sex, explains Assistant Professor Kathleen Sullivan of the Harvard Law School. However, these factors can now be legally weighed in the balance, says Sullivan, "with a thumb on the scale...