Word: reflectivity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surface, the news seems to reflect a rare example of idealism: in quiet meetings with Government officials, leaders of the steel industry and the United Steelworkers of America are working out an agreement to change rigid promotion rules that have tended to keep blacks in the most menial and lowest-paying jobs in the mills. The pact would be the first such plan put forward voluntarily by a major industry. In another sense, though, the move appears to be considerably less than an exercise in altruism. Executives and union leaders seem to be trying to do the minimum...
Champen further emphasized that the conditions at prisons reflect inequality in society. Most prisoners are non-whites and the National Guard and hostages at Attica were all white, Champen pointed...
...miserable evening for the Crimson five in almost every category. The statistics reflect the dismal play of Harvard: the team as a whole shot 25.6 per cent from the floor and 50 per cent from the foul line...
...tests. I merely indicate that I.Q. tests do not necessarily measure innate intelligence, as opposed to intelligence due to all factors, innate and environmental. Further refinement and objectification of these tests might improve their power to measure innate intelligence; but for the time being it is inevitable that they reflect training to some extent, if only because they are given in English to many students who speak Spanish or other foreign languages around the home. As a predictor of achievement in an English-speaking society, such tests continue to have value. As scientific proof of supposed inborn inequality, they remain...
PEOPLE OPPOSED TO social change often argue that disobeying the law is not the best way to bring about reform. But men did not make laws to act as obstacles to a moral society. Laws reflect the moral tenor of society, and an obsolete law is never changed unless people act to oppose...