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...teaching appointment a department has to file a statement proving that it made a careful search beforehand and tried to find minority and women candidates, and for non-teaching appointments employers have to list openings beforehand to encourage a wide applicant pool. Once the search for applicants is made, whoever is doing the hiring theoretically proceeds to hire the best qualified person for the job; it is more likely that minorities or women will be hired than it was before the days of affirmative action simply because there will be more women and minority applicants...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: A Gloomy Outlook for Affirmative Action, at Harvard and Elsewhere | 6/12/1975 | See Source »

...were a Greek and I believed in democracy I would be so very happy that my country, as a result of the blunders of the military dictatorship in Cyprus, that the government was overthrown that would be down on my knees praying to whoever they pray...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: A Splinter in NATO's Flank | 6/10/1975 | See Source »

Getting the Frisbee to the end zone is what stirs the bedlam. The plastic disk can be moved only in the air, and whoever catches it is allowed only three "momentum" steps before passing it on. The offense keeps moving only as long as it controls the Frisbee; when passes are blocked, intercepted, dropped or go out of bounds, the Frisbee is turned over to the other team. When a player has the Frisbee, only one opponent at a time may try to block his pass. Substitutions are allowed during breaks in play, and fouls are called on the honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ultimate Frisbee | 5/26/1975 | See Source »

...nature could not continue for long," warned Healey in spelling out the details of an austerity program that placed stiff taxes on items ranging from cigarettes to sewing machines. "If people insist on paying themselves more than they're earning, somehow or other the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whoever he is, has got to take it away again or the whole thing will blow up." Although he stopped short of advocating statutory wage controls, Healey further outraged the unions by offering a budget that will in effect allow unemployment to rise from its current level of 4% to nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: A Rake's Painful Progress | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

Last year the Crimson edged out the highly touted Tigers by a scant one and a half seconds in the Goldthwait Cup. But Princeton's chance to redeem itself and show Harvard, and whoever else was watching, that they were indeed tops in the East crumpled as the Tigers crawled across the finish line a very dead last in the Sprints Grande Finale...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Lightweights Host Princeton and Yale In Goldthwait Cup | 5/2/1975 | See Source »

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