Word: swift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promoting diversity and creating a house community recently have been at odds in the divisiveness surrounding Kirkland house. Master Donald H. Pfister's concerns that the concentration of athletes in certain houses--especially his own--are so high as to defeat the College's goal of diversity have prompted swift action. A week from today the house masters will consider placing quotas that set a limit of 29 percent on the number of varsity and junior varsity athletes in a house and a minimum of 9 percent...
...NOTEBOOK: The lightweights will race against Dartmouth and MIT this weekend in what should be a faster race due to the swift currents on the course in Hanover...
...beginning a major reorganization of the 8,200-member headquarters staff in Chicago. Layers of management are being reduced so that Sears can respond more quickly to changes in fashions and consumer tastes. Managers responsible for buying different kinds of products will be given more freedom to make swift decisions. Says Michael Bozic, who heads Sears' merchandise group: "We've empowered all of our managers to design the kind of organization they need to compete in their own industries." Sears says the headquarters staff will be streamlined through attrition and early retirement rather than layoffs...
...regularly frequents prostitutes. These are the people at whom the book should be aimed. As for the rest of us, we must make haste to save lives, even if they are not our own. Or sexual behavior should be cautious, yet not terrified; our political behavior should be swift, yet not tyrannical...
...article with these characteristics may merit swift and thorough rebuttal, but a university committed to freedom of expression cannot respond with censorship. The First Amendment exists precisely to protect speech which challenges prevailing beliefs, provokes controversy, and presents ideas which others passionately hate. To be meaningful, freedom of speech must protect dissent, even when those in power perceive it as irresponsible or unreasonable. Mr. Larew rightly calls attention to the racial inequality still imbedded in our society, but his prescription of thought control must be rejected as dangerous and counterproductive. Alan D. Viard, GSAS