Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mentality--women allowed in only for parties, as social and sexual objects, not colleagues--is as prevalent outside the clubs as in. The University's lack of enthusiasm for women--shown by the abysmal hiring record of women for top posts in the administration and tenured faculty--can only prevent the awareness of women as professional and authoritative equals...
...church's success reflects a more pressing concern for Harvard. The church offers converts friendship and comfort in exchange for unblinking devotion, but implicitly threatens to withdraw all support if one leaves the group. Being trapped in this kind of web can isolate converts and prevent them from leaving the church...
...Board of Overseers and the University administration in the last few months amount to a grand stall tactic, or a massive expression of spinelessness, or both. While the President has every responsibility to argue for or against divestment in the abstract, it is cowardly for him to prevent the Board from issuing its opinion in a similarly clear...
...President Bok and the Corporation seem to want a Board filled with opinion-less members. In addition to preventing a vote on divestment, the formation of the new committee is designed to prevent Overseers from taking any initiative in University policy. Paranoid that the Corporation could lose the upper-hand in governing the University, President Bok and his associates in the administration are willing to sacrifice serious consideration of divestment on the altar of preserving the governing hierarchy...
...Administration's recent efforts to prevent superconductivity laboratories from sharing their findings with foreign scientists have come under attack from the scientific community and are unlikely to pass through Congress, lobbyists...