Word: realms
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...course, this can't be the rationale. Harvard claims a commitment to diversity and pluralism. They claim a commitment to the protection of minorities. They even have an official policy regarding incidents of racial "insensitivity." It seems reasonable that a concern for insensitivity should extend into the religious realm as well. A majority inclination is surely not enough to justify any scheme of House interior decor...
...Supreme Court a recent federal court decision striking down racial preferences in admissions to the Boston Latin School, the city's most prestigious public high school. If the high court decides to hear the case, it would be the first appeal involving affirmative action in the realm of public schools. A broad ruling could have widespread national repercussions, setting a precedent for any race-conscious policy in any school district...
...consummate political insider, upwardly mobile in a Machiavellian age and seemingly indispensable at the volatile court of England's tyrannical Henry VIII. With crafty language and veiled speech, he was master of the legalistic surmise and the affidavit of denial. He was the pre-eminent lawyer of the realm. At the same time, More could spit scatology with the foulest pamphleteers in that feverish dawn of the printing press. And as he spewed, he cast a censorious eye on the revolutionary and newfangled free flow of information. He believed in banning books. He believed in burning heretics...
From Henry Ford at one end of the century to Bill Gates at the other, these 20 people influenced lives far beyond the business world. Indeed, TIME defines the business realm broadly, including anyone who works for a living, and our list extends to the world of sports and the National Football League's Pete Rozelle, organized labor and the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther, and even organized crime's Lucky Luciano, whose syndicate was certainly better managed than was Al Capone...
...global enterprise of the Estee Lauder Cos. is centered on the 40th floor of the General Motors Building in Manhattan. Here the realm of very Big Business meets the world of Estee Lauder--intensely refined, every woman's dream office. It has been the office of a businesswoman and mother, where work and family mingled seamlessly for decades in a major corporation--the Holy Grail of many working women today (her grandchildren are in key positions). Carol Phillips, who founded the Clinique line for the company, describes Lauder's management style as highly creative. She conducted business in subtly elegant...