Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Larson described the man as white, thin, and brown-haired. When the man produced a gun, Larson gave him alive." Police arrived two minutes later, but the robber was gone...
...theories result in failure to receive tenure. Usually the political motivation behind tenure denials is masked by objective criteria (e.g., poor teaching performance, insufficient scholarly publication) that are legally acceptable grounds for dismissal. However, at Boston Stage College as case of tenure has arisen where the mask is so thin it fails to hide what can only be termed a flagrant violation of academic freedom and first amendment rights...
...from 5,000 to 12,000 regulars. General mobilization could raise that to 35,000. Hundreds of foreigners-Britons, Portuguese colonials from Angola, South Africans and Americans-have also been signed on, and mercenaries are being recruited in Britain and the U.S. But the white manpower pool is stretched thin, and the military is increasingly turning to blacks, who make up more than half the army and three-quarters of the paramilitary police force. "They are absolutely first-class soldiers," says Defense Minister P.K. Van der Byl. He insists that he has no qualms about their loyalty...
...attack on affirmative action regulation Bok allies himself with those who accept, or at least ignore racism and sexism at Harvard. Attacks on affirmative action have accelerated during the past two years and, while they have at times focused on legitimate issues, too often they have provided a thin veil for the feeling that integration has gone far enough. More than a few deans, department chairmen and professors could view the annual report as tacitly approving that feeling, as approving a go-slow policy on the hiring of women and minorities, as approving a policy of resistance to the spirit...
...social science has no reliable answers, neither does history. Many are convinced that there is a correlation between the advance of pornography and the decline of a society. But the historical evidence for making such a connection is thin...