Word: proportionately
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Silber said that he would not give into demands that he end the ban entirely "because of parents, who are in a proportion of about 30 to 1 opposed to overnight visitors of the opposite sex."
American business is built on a rock of lawfulness and trust between companies and those who hold a stake in them. But when avarice grows out of proportion, cracks start to appear in the foundation. "Greed can be good," says M.I.T.'s Modigliani, when it spurs profitable and productive growth...
But colleagues charged that Frazier wasunfairly being used as an example. "The wholeaction was out of proportion," said Dr. JohnRomano, a professor of psychiatry at theUniversity of Rochester. "It is a reflection ofHarvard's anxiety over its past record." Romano,who said he has known Frazier for many yearscalled Frazier...
The statistics that we know are troubling: they imply that Harvard admits proportionally fewer Asian-Americans than all other ethnic groups, even though their applicant pool is more qualified acadmically. On average, only 13.3 percent of Asian-American applicants are admitted to Harvard versus 17 percent for white applicants. And...
That appeal worked just well enough to boost Bush to a respectable majority, although Dukakis did better than expected among Democrats who had voted for Ronald Reagan in 1984. According to the NBC-Wall Street Journal Election Day poll, Bush captured just 41% of that critical bloc. Voters who decided...