Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Plausible arguments against setting any kind of quotas in admissions are ready at hand--although the administrators who've maintained tiny female quotas for years are hardly the right people to make them. But the chief rival to equal admissions--a "sex-blind" policy--would allow these same administrators to perpetuate discrimination covertly behind a facade of equality. Harvard traditionally places weight in admissions on sex-related traits, such as high school athletic achievement or the holding of particular school offices. Harvard could admit equal proportions of the men and women who apply, while maintaining the present imbalance...
...loss to arch-rival B.U. was a hard one for the team to take--Radcliffe beat B.U. by 15 seconds in the Eastern Sprints...
...slight. As the OAU gathered in Mogadishu last week, Scares appealed to the organization to help settle differences that will arise in Lusaka and Algiers. Its ability to aid is doubtful, however. The OAU states have not even been able to coax any measure of agreement from the three rival movements fighting the Portuguese in Angola, one of which is itself split into three separate factions and another of which is holding rival guerrillas hostage...
Park's current efforts to crack down on what is left of his political opposition center on two trials now taking place in Seoul. The first involves Kim Dae Jung, Park's rival in the 1971 presidential election. Kidnaped from a Tokyo hotel last year by South Korean security agents, Kim, who was later released, is in court to face old charges that he violated provisions of his country's election laws in the 1967 and 1971 campaigns. The trial has infuriated the Japanese-still smarting from the kidnaping-who had been promised that Kim would...
...insistence on spending Sundays at home with his blonde wife Midge and their three children. But Flournoy was helped most by his opponents' problems. A number of formidable early contenders decided not to run. Though a total of six remained in the contest, Flournoy's main rival was Lieutenant Governor Ed Reinecke, who led the polls until his indictment earlier this year for perjury in connection with his testimony before the Watergate grand jury. Reinecke maintains that he is innocent, but the indictment was a fatal blow. Flournoy, campaigning mostly on his governmental experience, ended up with...