Word: unfit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American while others did not is sexism. "The only way to make us slaves (chattel slaves, not the indentured servants the first White slaves in America were) was to demean us sexually," she says. "The only way they could justify selling Blacks was to say we were sexually unfit...
...example, must take a battery of tests that group them by mental ability, from the brightest (Category I) to the dullest (Category V). A study this summer showed that a disturbingly high 46% of the 1979 recruits ranked in Category IV. Those in Category V are automatically rejected as unfit. Alexander sided with consultants who concluded that the real problem was the Army's use of a test that was designed to measure aptitudes rather than intelligence. He ordered all scores removed from personal records, to keep them from being misused. Says Alexander: "What is relevant is how well...
...limited to a ten-month stint as Minister of Education, a post in which he mainly presided over the closing of schools and universities in the name of "Islamization." President Abolhassan Banisadr, who is constitutionally responsible for nominating the Prime Minister, considered Raja'i headstrong, ill-informed and unfit for the job. In fact, the 47-year-old former mathematics teacher seemed to have had only one thing going for him: a fanatical attachment to the Islamic fundamentalism of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
...academic training to elaborate on the possible origins and rationale for such patterns. He even erroneously associated this barbaric practice with Islam. Also, his outdated and cruelly staged German-made films (the German filmmakers seem to have a preoccupation with this sort of thing) have long been considered unfit for presentation at most respectable institutions...
...graduate students involved with these problems, we will continue to be involved in these issues. We demand that the future director of the Harvard Institute for International Development be aware and responsive to them as well, both in perspective and past record. It is evident that Arnold Harberger is unfit for the position on either of these grounds. Richard Reed Jerome Hasenpflug Michael Rhum Bruno Pajaczkowski Emily McIntire Mariza Peirano Rafique H. Keshavjee James P. Ito-Adler Roberto Kant DeLima George Bisharat Hy Luon Elizabeth Eames Martin Etter Nancy Nicolson