Word: poole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first thing to do is widen the terms of debate. According to the University, the reason there are so few minority and women professors is that the pool of women and minorities with Ph.D. s is too small. And that's true. And that should become a major component of the issue...
...Harvard doing anything to increase the pool? The Mellon Foundation has given Harvard $350,000 to set up a program of research opportunities in which Black, Hispanic, and Native American students would work with faculty members in their fields of study. The goal is to encourage them to attend graduate school and eventually become professors. Then why hasn't Harvard actually done anything to implement this program...
Broadcast journalists are perhaps the most at risk. Pool techniques do not work for on-the-air reporters, who can be identified by their faces or voices. Despite Pulido's bravery, many print-news executives, in fact, share the feeling of El Espectador director Juan Guillermo Cano, 35. Says he: "I think the radio people are more intimidated, and it shows in their reporting." In some cases, darker forces than fear may be at work. A small radio network, Radial 2000, was listed among the business interests of Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, the Bogota Mafia superchief who is wanted by authorities...
...pool of uninsured students affected by the new student health insurance program represents a little less than 15 percent of the total number of college and university students in the state. Under the new regulations, those students are required to pay anywhere between $200 and $600 per year in premiums, with an average cost of $270. Students cannot register for classes this fall unless they have health coverage. Although most schools accept "equivalent coverage" as a substitute for the plans mandated by the state, a few schools, notably Curry, Dean and Hellenic College, require that all students sign...
...executive director, and Cohen that day, roughly sketched on a paper napkin, was a slightly curved black granite wall, 8 3/4 ft. high and 39 ft. long, that would bear part of the King passage. Above it, on what would be the upper plaza, water from a small pool would flow gently down the wall, gently enough that one could easily read the words. To the right of the wall would be a curved set of stairs...