Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then there is "diversity." Jewett defines the operation of this concept as "trying to attract into the applicant pool people who wouldn't normally apply; people from socio-economic backgrounds whose horizons wouldn't normally include Harvard." As far as quotas are concerned, "diversity as practiced at Harvard has no...
Harvard has unquestionably made gains in bringing minorities into the College over the last ten years. What remains to be seen is whether Harvard's cautious approach, based on the ideal of "diversity" will make further significant progress. On one side, "diversity" offers no guarantee that percentages of minorities in...
Not everyone is so determined. "People are afraid," says Robert Kaye, chief of the Florida State Attorney's Office Strike Force. "They ask themselves, 'Is the defendant going to get me when he gets out of jail?' " When the Institute for Law and Social Research asked witnesses...
Carrying hand-lettered placards of protest, nearly 3,000 residents of an Ohio Valley coal-mining area pressed into a hotel ballroom in the town of St. Clairsville in a concerned and angry mood last week. The subject of the meeting, set up by the Environmental Protection Agency: an antipollution...
Most subscribers express happiness with their new legal protection. An early pilot program for a laborers' union in Shreveport, La., sponsored by the A.B.A. with assistance from the Ford Foundation, was funded from dues even before the experimental period ended, and the plan went forward on its own in January...