Word: stemming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BASIC PROBLEMS inherent in switching over to a sex-blind admissions policy at Yale or Harvard stem from two major sources: tradition and economics. Traditionally, of course, both schools have been considered male bastions, and they are still male-dominated. The difficulty in switching from an all-male to a flexible 60-40 per cent male-female ratio lies with students parents and grandparents, many being graduates of the colleges People visualize things, one Yale trustee said, as in their younger days It is terribly hard to persuade someone, especially an alumnus, to even rationally thank about equal admissions when...
...server. But he was outspent 2-to-1 by Democrat Hargrove ("Skipper") Bowles Jr., 52, an ebullient millionaire businessman who lavished $1.3 million on a slick statewide media campaign. Not even Bowies' G.O.P.-scale spending, or the Democrats' 3-to-l edge in voter registrations, could stem the Nixon tide, which made Holshouser North Carolina's first Republican Governor-elect since...
...dedicated to graduating 1000 male leaders," Yale President Kingman Brewster said in 1968, assuring worried alumni that Old Ell's decision to add coeds in the fall would not stem the steady flow of Yale-educated men into the Supreme Court, Legislature and Wall Street...
Paul Parravano '73 faces a maximum fine of $220 and a jail sentence of six months for the two charges which stem from a sit-in at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford...
Their success does not stem from their comedy. Rather, the laughter that arises is merely the nervous reaction of a society that refuses to change the conditions that produce a bigoted Archie, a sad Sanford, or a phony Maude...