Word: redresses
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...more or less equally qualified applicants a class it expects to be interesting and diverse. Admitting more women would strengthen both efforts, and imply no lowering of academic standards. At the same time, adopting a one-to-one policy would place Harvard in the forefront of a movement to redress the cumulative effects of centuries of discrimination. "Sex-blind" admissions, working with the status quo, does not address itself to the need to improve the socio-economic standing of women in America...
...groups. Criticisms from women of the first draft of the present proposal, submitted last year, were incorporated into HEW's findings in its letter of rejection last June. Those groups now feel betrayed by the government's acceptance of the plan, and turning to other government channels for redress...
...protest can only be viewed as a stalling tactic, to force the well-organized Medical Area employees to wait up for their relatively disorganized counterparts in Cambridge. Harvard should encourage the organizing effort in the Medical Area and endorse its petition for unionization. In the meantime, the administration should redress the workers' grievances...
Sociologist Bell considers this "principle of redress," as Rawls calls it, to be "the central value problem" of contemporary society. How much redress? And at what cost to other groups in the society? Just how agonizing these questions can be is seen in the ongoing debate about quotas and compensatory efforts. Where liberals like Bell once opposed discrimination because of "its denial of a justly earned place to a person on the basis of an unjust group attitude," now a different proposition is being argued. Merely being disadvantaged-by being black or female or young or Indian or whatever-entitles...
...noble sentiment. Equality as similarity is a hopeless goal, as any plain girl realizes when she watches the progress of a pretty woman down a street. People are favored by nature, birth or fortune; they outdo others by talent, effort and luck. Many equality arguments turn on trying to redress the inequities of "them as has gits...