Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increase the number of qualified minorities and women in academia had actually backfired. That contention may be correct, certainly federal codes mandating endless statistical reports and detailed procedures haven't done anything to streamline the Harvard bureaucracy. But at root it is a minor contention. No one would seriously suggest that the resources freed up by even the most drastic retrenchment in federal requirements actually will dramatically facilitate the hiring of women or minorities Reducing the "immense burden of paperwork" will make the lives of department chairmen and search committees more pleasant. Whether it will make them more efficient purveyors...
...Administration contends that the government's responsibility to defend everyone's right to attend college does not translate to a responsibility to pay for it. The evaporation of federal affirmative action codes thus represents not Administration confidence that private institutions will voluntarily seek diversity, as Rosovsky's report would suggest. Rather, it suggests a fundamentally flawed view of equality. In that version, rich and poor have equal education privileges--though the latter cannot pay-and white and Black have similarly equal rights to education--though the latter's history of being saddled with economic and social disabilities besmirches the very...
...LINE in the Gomes Report foreshadowed the fate of the Race Relations Foundation: "Its 'success,' we wish to suggest, will depend not so much upon the structure that emerges, but rather on the spirit in which all members of this community consider the opportunities that confront...
...turn, President Reagan has sought to ascribe favorable economic news to his program of sweeping tax and budget cuts, while blaming downturns on structural factors and Democrats. Only one phrase can properly describe that tactic: having your cake and eating it too. As the President's most recent statements suggest, that opportunism remains the centerpiece of his economic program...
...applicants to the Class of 1986 are more upsetting than startling. Admissions Office figures showed that the number of applicants whose parents didn't attend college dropped by 570 students from last year,--showing that the percentage of "non-affluent" applicants may have fallen off sharply. Those trends suggest ominously that the economic and racial diversity Harvard so rightly prized could prove more elusive than ever in years to come...