Word: substandards
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...commissions, and he could ignore the Faculty in pushing forward some study on the reestablishment of ROTC. And Nixon certainly has demonstrated his commitment to affirmative action. He appointed a woman U.S. treasurer even though the workers at her California factory charged her with hiring illegal Mexican immigrants at substandard wages and threatening to report them if they quit or went on strike...
...report by the London Community Relations Commission revealed that blacks face substantial discrimination when trying to buy a house and that the color bar is forcing many blacks to live in substandard housing. Charges of police brutality have become common, and earlier this year 31 community relations workers and teachers sent a letter to the Birmingham police chief charging that "the insensitivity of the police to the situation is deliberate [and] any encounter between the police and a group of black people can almost be guaranteed to result in violence...
...housing inspection reports and unreleased police statistics on juvenile crime in the project provide strong reasons for closing the eight-story tower. John E. Donovan, Assistant Executive Director of the Cambridge Housing Authority, opposes the closing of the tower, and he has claimed that Roosevelt Towers accomodations were not substandard...
Graham said she considers the area bounded by MIT, the Charles and East Cambridge an optimal location for a housing development to replace nearby substandard housing...
Once again the Administration is attempting to palm off a plan that falls far short of any real demonstration of commitment to the policies it has no trouble verbalizing. The University's obligation is not merely to meet the substandard requirements of the Federal government, but to begin immediate active recruitment of women and minority groups employees so that the near future will see a Harvard whose administrators, faculty members, and workers include equal numbers of men and women in all the ranks, receiving equal compensation for their duties...