Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the ratio be dropped in favor of an admissions policy of "equal access." Equal access sounds great on paper: every applicant will be judged solely on the basis of his or her qualifications, without regard to sex. No longer will there be any of those artificial quotas. The vast majority of students supported the policy. Matina Horner, in a not-too-surprising role as a defender of the Harvard administration, declared that equal access was really the best thing for women, since women admitted under a 1 to 1 ratio would always wonder whether or not they'd been...
...face of the earth can make the present welfare system work fairly and effectively" because it is so "confused, overlapped and uncoordinated." New York's new state commissioner for social services, Stephen Berger, with tongue only slightly in cheek, has a proposal that is aimed at the vast welfare bureaucracy. Since firing the government employees involved would only add to unemployment, he wants to "strip every third person of his or her typewriter and telephone, encourage them to play bridge or do anything that comes into their heads-except send out more instructions, forms and guidelines...
...savory, sage, saffron, sassafras, tarragon, mint, chives, dill, lemon verbena, marjoram, fennel, sorrel, chervil, coriander, cumin, caraway and celery seed. From ajowan to zedoary, there are hundreds of other herbs available, in 17th century Herbalist John Parkinson's phrase, "for use and delight." To the delight of the vast army of health-food enthusiasts who use herbs, most of them are grown organically without chemical fertilizers or sprays...
...each new temple, nobler than the last," wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes, "shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast!" Poet Holmes was referring to mansions of the soul, but he might well have been prophesying today's pharaonic era of sports-stadium construction, in which city after city vies to encapsulate its populace in ever nobler temples and vaster domes...
...schools range from one-room, family-run operations with perhaps 20 students in rural areas to vast urban mills like Tokyo's Yotsuya Otsuka, which has an enrollment of 15,000. Fees run as high as $100 a month, for which the juku, using the same rote memory teaching system that is the staple of Japan's public schools, give students hours of drilling in the sort of names, facts and dates that come up in multiple-choice school entrance exams...