Word: tip
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...Department said it "found little or noevidence of an ethnic `tip' being given to AsianAmerican applicants. There were no readers'comments that suggested that an applicant's Asianethnicity was a significant or important factor indeciding to admit the applicant in the same waythat being a legacy or a recruited athlete wasinstrumental in admitting applicants...
...While the various `tips' or preferences couldnot be weighed or defined precisely, it was clearthat the ethnic tip for Asians was significantlyless instrumental than `tips' for legacies andrecruited athletes in the determining whether ornot to admit an applicant," the report continued...
Nonetheless, the Department concluded thedecision to give a "tip" to Asian Americans was amatter of institutional policy, and that failureto do did not violate the Civil Rights Act of1964...
...Asian Americans] clearly get a big whack--nota tip--in the direction against them," saidDershowitz. "Harvard wants a student body thatposesses a certain racial balance...
...Crimson's last Ivy League title season, 1987, its only league loss came against the Big Red, who utilized a juggling, tip-drill TD catch in the endzone in the last two minutes of the game to upset Harvard...