Word: regardless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Educators are as worried about the Pepper bill as businessmen. The prospect at the university level is that a comfortably tenured faculty, whose work is not subject to any kind of review, will stay on forever, regardless of competence. This change could not come at a worse time, since the number of teaching jobs is shrinking. Says Robben W. Fleming, president of the University of Michigan: "We're creating a missing generation that doesn't have a chance in the academic world. The department heads say they are not going to have many openings for the next ten years. That...
...recall another piece of legislation for the aging that came earlier in his career. When he ran for his first full Senate term in 1938, Pepper urged the passage of the "Townsend Plan," which called for a $200-a-month payment to everyone over 60 who agreed to retire, regardless of need. Though the plan was defeated, political pressure for it was in part responsible for the passage in 1935 of the public assistance and old-age insurance provisions of the Social Security...
...administrative areas an HMO must prove its fiscal soundness, offer a standard grievance procedure to its members and allow open enrollment at specific intervals, regardless of the current health of an applicant...
...overcome environmental liabilities. Opening up compensatory programs to those individuals who no longer suffer the disadvantages of historic repression does little good for those who still do. Programs such as U.D. Davis Med School's quota system for non-whites should be open to all individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, regardless of their ethnic background. Flexible guidelines should replace the use of any strict quotas. While such changes would make the admissions process more difficult--requiring additional recruiting as well as a more thorough identification of individuals--it is more equitable and socially just. And, because minority groups have suffered from...
...Goyette told the neighbor to call the police and have the car towed--as he would in any other similar circumstance--the neighbor exclaimed that this was a Harvard car, so he couldn't do anything about it. Goyette says he told the man to have the car towed, regardless of the sticker it carried, pointing out that it belonged to a careless individual, not the University...