Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surface at Boston Garden is small and rough. Skating skills, a Harvard staple, are not as important as bruising skills. A hockey maxim: bigger players are better on a small ice surface. And B.C. is bigger...
...that of course the University had to make every effort to find individuals of talent among minorities and women--pointing to the discrimination by Harvard, in the past, against. Jews. But the principle of representation is based on the idea of constituencies that have to be included, often in rough proportion to their numbers, and that however defensible that might be in the larger policy, it could not be controlling in the selection of a faculty whose purposes are scholarship, research and teaching. I remarked that in many of the statements, documents and petitions I had seen, this distinction...
About 200 students and alumni of the Yale School of Organization and Management--the rough equivalent of Harvard's Business School--stood outside the meeting to protest what they say are crucial curriculum and faculty that will change the tenor of the school...
...keeping the 7.4 million Americans working at minimum wage jobs in such penury. The benefits of an increased and indexed minimum wage will extend beyond those who earn it, to the more than 10 million Americans who work at near-minimum wages. After eight years of Reaganism running rough-shod over the working poor, it's time to give them a hand...
That power finally sweeps away one's resistance to the film's major improbability. It asks us to believe that the FBI, in those days still under J. Edgar Hoover's dictatorship, would have mounted an elaborate sting operation to bring the murderers at last to some rough justice under federal anticonspiracy statutes. That seems unlikely, especially given Hoover's hatred of Martin Luther King and his allies. Still, narrow historical criticism somehow seems irrelevant to a movie that so powerfully reanimates the past for the best of reasons: to inform the spirit of today and possibly tomorrow...