Word: selective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year for example, nearly $5 million was raised for the proposed $26 million Soldiers Field sport complex by such an approach. A campaign for construction and renovation of athletic facilities was staged to attract support from a select group of friends of Harvard athletics who do not wish to give money for other purposes. This approach, Peterson maintains, will not hurt funding for scholarships and educational resources...
...France, BSN, a giant glass company, has a committee of 30 workers (representing 14,000) who meet once a month with management to discuss a broad range of subjects: more flexible working hours, altering certain retirement plans. At the Renault auto company, Mitbestimmung translates as "job enrichment": Renault workers select components and assemble them at their own pace, cutting one to two hours off the previous assembly time...
Both L. Fred Jewett '57. Harvard dean of admissions and financial aid, and Alberta Arthurs, Radcliffe dean of admissions, financial aid and women's education, have previously said that they expect the merged admissions offices to be ready to select the Class...
...government would be seeking in the National Health Service Corps, if Congress sets up that medical army. Clearly, the Medical School should not expect or encourage a great degree of specialization among its applicants from colleges. Still, the Medical School is training doctors for service in society and should select students on the basis of the "putative needs of society," a policy the Cheever report opposes...
...tennis: that is, not allowing any one group to dominate the sport. On the Davis Cup issue, for example, he says: "I think having one or two persons running the show and saying who will and will not play is wrong. I think there should be play-offs to select the team members." Cup officials say Jimmy is miffed because three years ago he was passed over as a singles player...