Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...away. Banners still proclaimed military victories in the province of Long Khanh ("a big cemetery of the North Vietnamese aggressors"), although the region was lost. At the fashionable Cercle Sportif Francais, center of the social life of the wealthy Saigonese, champagne was served as usual beside the greenlined swimming pool. At the Club Nautique de Saigon, racing shells got another coat of varnish, as though the joys of summer would never end. The front gate of the My Canh restaurant, where two Viet Cong Claymore mines killed 48 diners in 1965, was being painted a sparkling aquamarine...
...they expect that commitment to equalized recruiting and "whatever resources may be necessary to increase the pool of qualified women applicants" to ensure "maximum effectiveness" of equal access...
...that although the report mentions no quotas, it envisions a period when men and women will apply in equal numbers to the Med School and when the accepted class will reflect, in its ratio of men to women, the proportion of qualified men to qualified women in the applicant pool, even if that means accepting more women than...
...seems reasonable to express such good faith towards an admissions office which has repeatedly accepted a greater percentage of women than the percentage in the applicant pool. Last year, for example, the admissions committee accepted one-third women from a pool that was 28-per-cent female. But if, as the Cheever report urges, recruitment measures are introduced, and the number of women applicants increases to parity, there is no guarantee here that the class will contain equal numbers. Dr. Leon Eisenberg, chairman of the admissions committee, says that constituencies in the largely male Med School faculty that would oppose...
...said, "The pool of applicants is extraordinarily gifted, so you look for a record of substantial performance in some other field after graduation from college...