Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extensive contact with Third World people. He continues to judge success in terms of a white upper middle class experience, and condemns Third World people for not living such an experience. The admissions office makes it clear that alumni interviews and the alumni are vital parts of the process, yet nothing is being done to change the all-white and unfair character of this and other parts of admissions and recruitment...
...final consideration given during the admissions process is geographic distribution. Harvard sees itself as a national university, and it strives to have students from all over the country. Harvard will reject a student solely because he or she comes from a geographic area that the admissions office feels is overrepresented. Over 50 per cent of all Puerto Ricans living in the continental U.S. live in New York City, so obviously when Harvard limits the applicants it accepts from New York City it adds another barrier on the path to more Puerto Ricans coming to Harvard...
...position that would be concerned with Puerto Rican admissions and recruitment. Several candidates were recommended, but the recommended were ignored in favour of a candidate hand-picked by L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, who did not even have to go through the normal application process...
...titled "exploration manager-technical," who left with a "specific and detailed knowledge of oil and gas prospects." That put Hirsch in a position to save Superior much time and money by telling which areas looked promising and which were duds. Mobil says he also knew its secret-bid calculation process, a complicated method of outguessing the competition in order to make bids for oil leases as low as possible, yet still win them. The Canadian suit named Arne R. Nielsen, president of Mobil Oil Canada, who was well versed in highly classified and arcane Mobil technology, including its airborne radar...
...Panama was savaged by the OPEC-induced recession. Torrijos' populist policies did not aid recovery. A law making it difficult for landlords to evict rent-delinquent tenants halted private housing construction, and new hiring has been discouraged by labor regulations that make the firing of employees a byzantine process. In 1973 the government concluded that salvation lay in growing more sugar: the industry is labor-intensive and world prices were high, but they have since fallen. Recently the government warned that 20,000 more workers will be idled and the economy will tumble into worse shape when the sugar...