Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION policies, for example, have some potential for making hiring procedures more fair, but at Harvard they have done extraordinarily little to increase the number or improve the position of black scholars. The rationale of Harvard's plan suggests that the University is not bound to hire more black teachers until there is a dramatic rise in the number of black Ph.D.s, and so the only real impact affirmative action has had here has been to suggest the need to boost the numbers of blacks studying for advanced degrees at the graduate schools...
...This study has no potential good," said Beckwith. "To suggest that an extra Y chromosome causes criminal behavior is absurd...
Zappa's musical output in the last year and double concert at Boston's Orpheum theater last weekend suggest that the brilliant composer may decide eventually to sacrifice his art for greater public acclaim and a higher income. To Zappa's delight, his last three albums, Overnite Sensation, Apostrophe' and Roxy & Elsewhere, scaled the charts and seduced a new crop of listeners--mostly teenyboppers jaded by glitter rock--into becoming "Zappa Freaks." But all this success spells trouble. The band that once proclaimed it had "no commercial potential" is now in danger of becoming much too commercial...
...Members suggest that the Greek consulate has tried to isolate the association by urging community rejection of the group. Most agree that they are under a certain amount of surveillance from the consulate--if not within their meetings, then certainly at association-led demonstrations...
When the fight began, there was little in action or tactics to suggest the startling turnabout to come. Beneath a full moon in Kinshasa at 4 a.m. (the better for prime-time closed-circuit TV viewing in the U.S.), Ali led a crowd of almost 60,000 Zairians in a chant of "Ali boma ye!" (Ali, kill him) before he began to dance round the ring, dodging Foreman's powerful swings. It was just as the experts and even the boxers themselves had predicted: the bear was chasing...