Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble is that presidential candidates are selected (or self-selected) from a very small pool. With rare exceptions, they are professional politicians who have served as a U.S. Senator or Governor, preferably of a large state. Since some of these are too old (65 is about the line) or heavily compromised on personal grounds (sex, drink, money) or hopelessly mediocre, it comes down at any one time to a list of maybe 50 who have a real shot at the presidency. Perhaps half of these would not be interested, so the list shrinks to 25. Considering that twelve men have...
Harvard's percentages of minorities have increased and are above the percentages of the local labor pool, but the University still has fallen short of its goals for minority non-teaching staff...
Harvard's affirmative action plan, which details the University's strategy for increasing minority and female representation by expanding the pool of applicants for jobs, makes numerical projections through July 1976 for the numbers of minorities and women who will work here...
Leonard attributed the shortfalls in minority non-teaching staff to the local labor pool, whose minority percentage is significantly smaller than Harvard...
...report, he called the increasing numbers of women and minorities in Harvard professional schools "strengthening" of the "future pool" of job applicants here...