Word: strengthened
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...University's present admissions policy. Harvard doesn't take the "most qualified" applicants it gets--there's no way it could even try. Rather, Harvard picks from a pool of more or less equally qualified applicants a class it expects to be interesting and diverse. Admitting more women would strengthen both efforts, and imply no lowering of academic standards. At the same time, adopting a one-to-one policy would place Harvard in the forefront of a movement to redress the cumulative effects of centuries of discrimination. "Sex-blind" admissions, working with the status quo, does not address itself...
...winter, was all smiles at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Ottawa. He said, "I believe that the disagreements of the past year, which have resulted from the fact that we have dealt with serious people representing serious contributions to our common progress, will have strengthened us as only free people can strengthen themselves through a debate...
...back to the living rooms of the U.S. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler called Nixon's welcome "the greatest in my six years with the President." He meant no irony, but home was never like this, and the President's aides were convinced that the accolades abroad would strengthen Nixon's hand in his battle to stave off impeachment...
...jurist and jail, New York State's top judicial administrative board has announced a new rule requiring judges to visit prisons and other detention facilities at least once every four years. The board hopes that getting off the bench and behind the bars - sensitivity training of sorts - will "strengthen the understanding judges have of facilities and institutions to which they send individuals." That may well be true, but one great psychological gap will remain, based on the simple fact that cell doors will always swing open at the slightest gesture from a visiting judge...
...Clair took two other steps to strengthen Nixon's pending Supreme Court arguments against an order by Federal Judge John J. Sirica that the President must honor Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's subpoena for 64 tapes. St. Clair petitioned the Supreme Court to consider as part of that case whether a grand jury had the authority to name the President as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate coverup, as it had secretly voted to do last Feb. 25, and, if so, whether it had acted on the basis of sufficient evidence. He also asked Judge Sirica...