Word: tempt
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That policy shift may tempt Harvard to abandon keeping its hefty records on affirmative action endeavors, but the University should resist the urge. Harvard should continue to report publicly on its hiring efforts, and show that the Reagan Revolution should not and will not move affirmative action from the spotlight...
That policy shift may tempt Harvard to abandon keeping its hefty records on affirmative action endeavors, but the University should resist the urge. Harvard should continue to report publicly on its hiring efforts, and show that the Reagan Revolution should not and will not move affirmative action from the spotlight...
Harvard for too long has lagged in the national quest for affirmative action in education. The relaxation of federal standards may tempt the University to ease its efforts; we hope Harvard will use it as an opportunity to spearhead the cause of affirmative action across the country, by setting an example of vigorous searching for women and minority scholars when doing so is out of favor...
...Reagan Administration's unexpected delay has created ill will in the U.N. As one Western ambassador puts it, "The world cannot stand still forever waiting on Washington." Some participants fear that the U.S. refusal to sign the treaty may tempt Third World countries to reopen issues in which they made concessions. It is now hoped that a "final" session might be scheduled by summer. After that would come the substantial hurdle of U.S. Senate approval...
Paisley's political theatrics occurred as terrorist attacks were continuing. Following a near fatal Protestant assassination at tempt against Catholic Activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and her husband, and the I.R.A. killings of Protestant No table Sir Norman Stronge and his son, an I.R.A. commando scuttled a British col lier off the coast. At the Maze Prison out side Belfast, meanwhile, I.R.A. prisoners announced another hunger strike to begin March 1, similar to the 53-day protest last year that nearly cost the lives of seven prisoners before it was called...