Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quadrennial farm programs, representing Government intervention in the marketplace in the extreme, are the antithesis of Reaganomics. They also tend to produce budget-busting expenditures. So President Reagan proposed a farm bill that would abolish target prices completely, lower dairy price supports and eliminate acreage allotments for peanuts. Explained Block: "Farmers should look to the free market for their income, not to the Government." Even so, the bill was expected to cost $10 billion over five years...
Unfortunately for Harvard, attention in the past to its hiring policies revealed all-too-spotty compliance with affirmative action codes, compliance that tended to conform to the letter--but rarely the spirit--of affirmative action legislation. The days when you could count the number of tenured women Faculty on the fingers of one hand and still have an astonishing number of fingers left over may be gone, but it remains mildly incredible that Harvard College boasts a mere 16 tenured women out of 356 on its tenured Faculty. Upper-level administrators, too, tend to be white males: the University should...
Diana won't be coming at Harvard's defense until The Game late in November, but while football coaches tend to take "one game at a time," Joe Restic must already have a corner of his cranium reserved for ways to stop the Eli steamroller...
...were nowhere near deep enough to meet its goal of a $42.5 billion federal deficit for fiscal 1982, or to make possible a balanced budget by 1984, as Reagan promised. Because the Government would have to borrow heavily to finance the growing flow of red ink, interest rates would tend to stay high...
Unfortunately for Harvard, attention in the past to its hiring policies revealed all-too-spotty compliance with affirmative action codes, compliance that tended to conform to the letter-but rarely the spirit-of affirmative action legislation. The days when you could count the number of tenured women Faculty on the fingers of one hand and still have an astonishing number of fingers left over may be gone, but it remains mildly incredible that Harvard College boasts a mere 16 tenured women out of 356 on its tenured Faculty. Upper-level administrators, too, tend to be white males: the University should...