Word: properly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April of 1987, Campanis--then a baseball general manager--said that Blacks lacked the proper buoyancy to swim well...
THOUGH highly controversial, Bennett's attacks on Harvard, Stanford, and other prestigious institutions have raised central questions concerning the mission of colleges and their proper role in society. And even a well-respected education leader like David Breneman, president of Kalamazoo College, essentially admitted the validity of Bennett's complaints when he said that many colleges, including his own, increase their tuitions in order to gain the elite recognition usually accorded to high-priced colleges...
...that oaf be so successful when I am so much more talented and educated?" Goldman provides reams of material but few answers. The best he can come up with is Lennon's unhappy motherless childhood. That may explain neurosis; the peculiar, electric genius still waits for a proper accounting...
...Horner also spoke of obstacles to women seeking leadership positions such as the perceptions people have of the "proper" roles for each sex and the belief among some that power could not be shared with women, only transferred in a "zero-sum game...
Long-standing attitudes about the proper role of women also manifest themselves in a variety of fears. Horner, an associate professor of psychology and social relations, described a number of phenomena afflicting women, including fears of both success and failure, and the "imposter phenomenon," the tendency for highly successful women to disown their own accomplishments...