Word: widens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vietnamese peasant not leave the countryside for a better life in the cities? Long explains that there was no place to go; the French made no real attempt to industrialize Vietnam. Their efforts were confined mainly to using taxes collected from the peasants to widen roads and improve ports in order to speed rice exports. And in the only industrial enterprise of any significance--the rubber plantations in the South--conditions were even worse than in the rural villages. The workers there were slaves: they worked long hours, were fed next to nothing, and could be murdered by guards...
...goals and timetables are not quotas. It is entirely possible that an institution could produce a plan, complete with reasonable goals, than widen its search procedures and still fail to hire more minorities and women. The plan is merely a promise, a pledge that need not bear fruit...
...technological: it possesses a certain likeness to the yellow stuccoed wings of the old Charlottenburg oastle, which seem so intoxicated with the repetition of their windows that they have forgotten the central dome and court completely, and would go on forever had they not remembered just in time to widen, vary, and conclude...
OTHER FACTORS served to widen the gap between students and working people. Suffice it to say that the union between the blue collars and the student left was based on too many misperceptions to succeed...
...these two principles are observed, the essential purposes of the University will be strengthened, not weakened. For example, in early 1968 not a single woman or black held a tenured position in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Under these circumstances, special efforts to widen our search by identifying promising women and black professors should help to improve the quality of the Faculty, since it is hard to believe that a faculty seeking the highest possible distinction would include no members who are either black or female...