Word: reductionisms
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While many of the people following the case have been able to come to a conclusion about where they stand, a disturbing number still seem to be basing their positions on misinformed, and in some cases pernicious, assumptions. Most of those misguided preconceptions revolve not around the Bakke case specifically...
Another thing affirmative action was never meant to entail is a reduction of admissions standards. There are numerous critics who argue that this has been its effect in practice. As of now, however, the only evidence these critics can marshal are comparisons of the renowned "numerical" admissions criteria--test score...
The new theory, formulated by Robert T. Bakker of John Hopkins University, emphasized the reduction of the rate of dinosaur species formation as a result of the draining of the shallow seas and the erosion of continental land masses.
Gibson said his office had assumes an 8 per cent rate in calculating the board bill because when the legislature lowered the tax, financial officers did not know when the reduction would go into effect, and because the legislature was then considering further changes in the tax rate.
The governor signed the tax reduction into law on July 6. The University sent term bill worksheets to parents during mid-July, Gibson said.