Word: standardization
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...often, offensive words, actions and attitudes are ignored because they are attributed, albeit incorrectly, to a more palatable, though nonetheless fixed, image of Harvard athletes. Because this false image is the standard through which possible lottery changes are being discussed, I do support a reduction of the number of athletes within Kirkland House...
...reducing the number of tax brackets from 14 to five for the 1987 tax year. For many of the 107 million U.S. taxpayers, reform has been a blessing. At least 2 million low-income citizens are no longer required to file at all. Moreover, the creation of a standard deduction and the raising of thresholds for medical expenses and other write-offs means that about 25% of the estimated 40 million taxpayers who itemize will be better off if they use the short forms instead. But for the remaining 30 million Americans who have any significant deductions, the tax-reform...
...lightly. In the first attempt to measure the quality of patents, Computer Horizons examined how often they were cited in applications filed by later inventors. The assumption of the study: when a patent is cited frequently, that means it has had a significant impact on subsequent research. By this standard, the Japanese come out ahead. In a ranking based on how often their patents are cited, Japanese inventors scored 26% higher than their American counterparts...
...brief point of information in connection with Melanie Williams review of Spike Lee's School Daze (March 9th): Ms. Williams' observation that Blacks have recently begun to change their eye color to "blue or green in order to conform to the white standard of beauty" unwittingly plays into one of the subtlest games of misinformation that white racism has played on Blacks...
...fraudulent abuse of power exhibited by Council Chair Evan J. Mandery '89. Sunday was the Council's spring grant disbursement meeting, during which the Council set an apparent precedent by voting to provide postage expenses for the Hillel's Committee on Oppressed Jewry (HCOJ); the UC Finance Committee as standard policy has always refused to pay for postage. After a contradictory vote not to pay postage for the South African Solidarity Committee AND the revelation by the Finance Committee of new information about apparent increased funds available to HCOJ, Council member Andreas Beroutsos moved to reopen debate on the HCOJ...