Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty Council yesterday received a report on the Faculty's progress toward its affirmative action goals set in 1976, showing that while the Faculty fell short in the actual number of women and minorities employed in teaching positions, it has met most of its percentage goals because the size of the Faculty is smaller than projected...
...these factors clearly are hindrances, but there must be additional reasons why American women are held back. In proportion to their numbers, blacks have made more political progress than have women in the past decade. Even in Britain, where old-boyism was invented, women have been slightly better represented in the House of Commons and the Cabinet than they are in the U.S. Government; Margaret Thatcher will become Prime Minister if the Conservatives win the upcoming general election. Legislatures in most other countries have a higher proportion of women than the U.S. Congress...
...criticized Saunders for endorsing Arab sovereignty over the West Bank and East Jerusalem, though this has been American policy for more than a decade. Most of all, the Israelis seemed to resent the timing of the Saunders trip, coming as it did while the Washington peace talks were in progress and while Begin was busy preparing his people and his parliament to support a settlement...
...Screwery," a band of romantic South American revolutionaries based in France. As the book commences, they are subverting the Establishment by filling new cigarette packages with burnt-out butts, and smuggling cartons of the fakes into bars and tobacco shops to be sold as the real thing. They progress to grimmer matters, among them the kidnaping of a South American police official...
...effort is going to be informative as to what's happened since we issued the (April 27) report," Calkins said yesterday, adding that the upcoming report will also include a discussion of progress made by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), which is evaluating the banks and companies in the portfolio on a case-by-case basis...