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Calling Harvard "one of the worst offenders concerning discrimination against women in the academic community," the WEAL letter called HEW's findings "a complete whitewash of the charges made concerning sex discrimination...
...letter was signed by Bernice Sandler, chairman of the WEAL Action Committee for Federal Contract Compliance in Education...
...problems of land conservation, the President called for an inventory of all 750 million acres of federally owned property. He wants to review which holdings should be opened up as parks and recreational areas and which should be sold so that other lands may be purchased for the public weal...
...citizen but are distributed down a lengthy chain of delegated command. All too often, public unions argue their case before officials who lack the authority-or the will-to negotiate solutions. Public employees are also aware that, while their opponent across the negotiation table supposedly represents the public weal, his bargaining stance is frequently determined by political expedience-and the sheer desire for political survival...
...Rosenwald, who developed this sentiment while giving away most of his $700 million mail-order fortune (Sears, Roebuck & Co.). Andrew Carnegie was uneasily convinced that "the man who dies rich dies disgraced," and to avoid that humiliation, he began investing a personal estate of $400 million in the public weal. In 1911, after twelve years of uninterrupted and unprecedented generosity, he still had $150 million left. Carnegie solved the problem by establishing the Carnegie Corporation of New York and endowing it with $125 million, thereby setting a pattern that other rich Americans have since copied with exponential zeal. Despite...