Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supersonic transport plane (SST) will be proven unprofitable within a year, William T. Coleman, Secretary of Transportation, said last night...
Harvard's duplicity in the Med Area was amply proven by its personnel-office juggling back in '72. On a tip from Ropes and Gray, the University changed the structure of the Med area personnel department, ostensibly for administrative reasons but most probably to foil a potential unionizing drive. Powers now states unequivocally that the Med Area personnel office is simply a branch of the main University personnel department which he helps administer; the union bitterly remembers that it wasn't always that...
They claim that affirmative action goes against the grain of the American tradition of innocent until proven guilty. "Companies underutilizing women and minorities are considered per see discriminators, often wrongly," Glazer writes...
...stifling effect of federal authorities on the "creativity" of University policies in regard to these groups in a manner worthy of states' right conservative, Bok upholds the prerogatives of "autonomous and diverse" institutions like Harvard University, even in areas where the exercise of these prerogatives has historically proven disastrous to democracy. His argument to the Board of Overseers rests on this one fundamental point: that the universities themselves are the best judges of how they might best serve the interests of society...
...which was marked by fantastic costumes and coyote yells and attended by transvestities, pimps, working women and the curious press. Hot-pink pasties, g-strings, sequins and nudity adorned the raucous proceedings--but the drag queens reportedly outdid the rest, leading one participant to comment, "Once again it's proven that...