Word: respectively
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...treat people as individuals rather than as members of categories. Says Syracuse University Religion Professor Michael Novak: "I think that like a great aircraft carrier, the court changed direction, and only two or three degrees of that direction are apparent now. But I hope this means an increased respect for the fact that every individual has a history, and that history has some relevance." Nathan Glazer, Harvard professor of education and author of Affirmative Discrimination, believes that "what the Supreme Court called for is human. It is asking for the kind of behavior any commonsensical human being would believe...
Although the Supreme Court's ruling may have broad implications in all aspects of race relations, it deals specifically with university admissions. Powell's long decision did not directly address the equally fundamental issue of affirmative action with respect to jobs and promotions, areas in which quotas of various sorts are widespread (and widely disputed). Under a Labor Department program, for example, firms employing 50 or more people and receiving federal contracts of more than $50,000 are given about five years to increase the number of minority employees until the percentage of these employees in the company matches their...
...Gold Helmet Award-winner as New England's Division One player of the year at season's end, McDermott's final year of football at Harvard saw no pomp, no hardware, but no loss of self-respect, as the tight end played steady and hard and finished tied for the third place on the all-time Crimson receiving parade...
Because Cooder goes to strange sources, there is a tendency to think of his records as so many vinyl museums run by a slightly eccentric curator. The crucial point, however, is that Cooder's albums are filled not only with respect for the American musical past but also with an immediate and highly infectious joy. The songs on Jazz may be old, but Cooder really blows the dust off them...
...defenses of Asia for TIME and then, provocatively, sent it upstairs from my room at the Manila Hotel to his penthouse suite. I had written that after three months of seeing all the generals -American, French, Dutch, English-in Southeast Asia, by far the best in every respect was General Douglas MacArthur, U.S. Army, retired. With this judgment MacArthur totally agreed, and I was immediately summoned...