Word: white
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Bush was informed of the situation by National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, White House deputy press secretary Roman Popadiuk said in Washington...
...part of its required audit of the Reagans' taxes during their White House years, the IRS's Los Angeles field office is considering information provided by M. Chris Blazakis, former executive vice president for James Galanos, one of the designers who provided Mrs. Reagan dresses on a need-to-wear basis. Under the tax laws, a celebrity receives income for high-visibility use of a product in an amount equal to the value of that product. The defense that some of the dresses were loans, not gifts, or that they are no longer worth very much once they have been...
Three years after Alan M. Brinkley was denied tenure, the History Department tenured a professor from inside its own ranks for the first time in two decades--one. The once-uniformly white male Harvard Corporation named a woman to its ranks--one. Harvard named a woman--one--to the position of a University vice president...
Harvard's faculty consists, for the most part, of white, male, middle-aged scholars with impeccable credentials and outstanding reputations. The tenure system insures it. And that, in itself, is a problem....the system discriminates against young academics; it favors the "big name" over youthful vigor and potential...In essence, junior faculty at Harvard are traveling the academic equivalent of a dead-end street, and that creates a morale problem...First, Harvard should start hiring minorities and women--not just make noises about how it's trying very hard...Second, departments should begin appointing young, promising scholars. Finally--and most...
...tired cliche to describe the 1980s as the era of selfishness, ostentation and greed. Ever since Nancy Reagan undertook to redecorate the White House and purchase new china while the rest of the country suffered the worst unemployment since the Great Depression, word has been out that Greed...