Word: orderings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...management job may be the first time a woman must work as part of a team in order to thrive, several women business students point out. Few women start their business careers with the teamwork experience that men have received from team sports and other activities...
Cambridge City Councilor Lawrence W. Frisoli proposed the order after learning from Harvard students that the college may have housed more people in these dorms than permitted by the Massachusetts Building Code...
Obviously I am not asking to resist governmental intrusion in order to encourage or accept intrusion of any other kind from any other quarter. What I am saying is that precisely to retain our capacity to choose, and to survive as we wish to survive as a private institution, Yale, and places like Yale, must recognize their natural alliances with other private institutions. Such alliances must spring from a perception that all portions of the private sector--voluntary, corporate, and educational--have a common goal, in a pluralistic society, of providing alternatives to public structures and solutions...
...rate at which banks lend to one another to nearly 9%, a level that Economist Okun believes-almost guarantees recession by making borrowing more expensive. Nor is there much hope that the rises in loan charges will stop. The Federal Reserve has been jacking up interest rates largely in order to contain an inflationary increase in the U.S. money supply, but so far it has failed. Money supply during the past month has shot up at an annual rate of about 12%, nearly double the board's upper target...
...undergraduates entering Harvard were ranked by the president according to their social standing: "to the Dignity and the Familie whereto the students severally belonged." Ranking determined room assignments, seating and serving order at dinner, chapel seating, class seating and even the marching order at college processions. This practice continued into the early 1800s, when it was terminated largely due to the outrage of families whose sons had been placed low on the list...