Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...devoted the portion of his letter on admissions to the subject of prior grades and test scores as entrance criteria. The discussion stemmed from a request last fall from minority student organizations to clarify his stance on a controversial preliminary report on Harvard admissions, prepared by Robert E. Klitgaard '68, special assistant...
Marshall, a second-year Law student, assailed the portion on minority faculty hiring. "It's nice to see Bok's commitment to affirmative action put down on paper, but we're interested even more in seeing the number of Black faculty increase--we're result-oriented," she said...
Residents agreed in September to drop a group of lawsuits which could have delayed the project up to 60 years in return for a promise from the developer to scale down the retail shopping portion of the retail, hotel, office, and condominium complex...
...irony would have it, Native Americans inside both the United States and Canada live on reservations where a significant portion of North American uranium resources are located. Millions of acres of Canadian Indian reserves are under lease for uranium exploitation; in 1976 alone more than 30,000 mineral claims were staked, primarily uranium...
...which suspects will actually com mit additional offenses if released while awaiting trial. Critics of the speech also objected to the idea of permitting convicts to file habeas corpus petitions only for miscarriages of justice, and not for technical errors. One reason: such petitions account for only a small portion of a court's work load and most are promptly dismissed. Moreover, points out Howard Eisenberg, executive director of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association: "One person's technical err or is another person's miscarriage of justice...