Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delay. The latest polls show Labor running only slightly behind the Tories in voter approval, 47% to 45%, a vastly improved standing from that of only a year ago. Yet Callaghan and some of his closest advisers were not so sure. Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, in particular, warned the Prime Minister "not to go for the first patch of blue sky." His reasoning: there is a good chance that Britain's economic recovery, notably a decline in inflation from 26% a year in 1975 to less than 8% at present, will have more impact on voters...
...costs of operating a black township school in a neighboring community to ensure higher educational standards for nonwhites than in government-run schools. While a very few firms, notably IBM, have long had equal-pay-for-equal-work policies, many more companies have lately been moving to redress a particular grievance of blacks: a system of bonuses that traditionally allowed whites to earn about three or four times as much as blacks in similar jobs. Goodyear undertook a two-year effort to eliminate bonuses and revise its entire pay and job classification structure on the basis of aptitude tests. Result...
...department, says that although administrators expect a certain number of leaves from the ordinary rotation of sabbaticals and research grants, the absences can sometimes cause a strain in the department's teaching program by reducing the variety of topics offered by the department Aside from those cases where a particular course is associated with a particular professor, Verba says the Government Department can usually cover all of the major courses either by hiring visiting professors or by juggling department teaching duties...
Over the last few years, college fundraising drives have suffered. Harvard's drive for the athletic complex faced particular problems because its success hinged on receiving a number of large contributions; the general fund drive strategy of hitting a large number of alumni for relatively small donations would not work for a specialized project such as the athletic complex, Athletic Department officials said...
Epps last week suggested that he might seek alternatives to the present minority plank, possibly through his efforts with the Race Relations Committee. "I wonder what particular problem is being addressed by quotas. If the assumption is that whites would not elect blacks, I question whether that is indeed the case." Epps noted that several blacks have been elected heads of House committees, that the president of the Glee Club this year is black, and that the executive editor of the Harvard Independent this year is black...