Word: weak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them. --Anacharsis to Solon...
...till 1975, efforts towards winning a new Affirmative Action plan and protesting the University's historic anti-women, anti-national minority discrimination, were rather isolated from one another and relatively weak. The different movements (women's, national minorities', workers') operated separately and often eyed each other with mutual suspicion. Individual struggles were waged, but partly because of the way in which they were conducted (unco-ordinated, no far-sighted leadership, lacking a mass character) they were only successful in calling attention to the issue of Affirmative Action...
...grades and pre-professionalism--it isn't all in the minds of scared Biology students. The explanation faculty members and administrators fall back on for the rise in applications to law and medical schools most often has to do with the economics of college degrees and the students' weak financial situation. Unemployment rose in 1974 to nine per cent, the highest it had been since World War II; it isn't surprising that Harvard students, like college students everywhere, began to worry about the future. And as the professions became a more attractive alternative, grades became increasingly important. "Only...
...Biology I and Nat Sci 5 textbook, "Life on Earth," never quite made it to the top of the charts, but was at one time the second most popular basic biology textbook, used by most of the Ivy League. The most popular one, Wilson says, is too elementary and weak in its treatment of evolutionary theory...
...Days, an account of Kennedy's presidency. He thought Plain Speaking, the profile of Harry Truman by Merle Miller, was especially instructive. His favorite "trade book" is The Presidential Character, an analysis by Duke University's James David Barber of the traits that make for strong and weak chief executives...